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MIN’S COMPLEAT TAROT MANUAL
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With Min’s Compleat Tarot Pak
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©2004 Daniel Joseph Min
All rights are free
Min’s Free Press
Continental Divide, CO
Min’s Google-archived digital edition December 26, 2002.
First printed edition published by MFP on July 1, 2004.
Preface
After completing my first book, ‘Historical Calendar Of Jesus’, my interest in the astronomy
and astrology of the ancient magoi who visited Jesus in 2 BC was greatly accelerated. I learned
independently to translate and study the prophetic writings and judicial astrology of Dr. Michel de Nostradamus, and to harvest astrologically-relevant content from the psychic readings
of Edgar Cayce — all with ardent enthusiasm. I studied classical Greco-Roman mythology,
which, in light of my bible studies and my practice of Nosty’s and Cayce’s judicial astrology,
kindled my interest in Tarot, and among other enterprises encouraged me to write this book.
I was fortunate enough to have a musical and mathematical upbringing. My mother an accomplished pianist, and my father an engineer. Thus math, music, and pattern-recognition in
general has always come easily for me. There’s a fundamental correlation between astronomy
and astrology, mythology and tarot. And this is to recognize that music and mathematics connects the whole together. Not only in theory, but verily in the real-world, through personal
experience and increasing psychic awareness.
At the end of this book, I’ve included all 78 of my original tarot cards, which can be cut to
size on any standard paper cutter. These cards can be used as “flash cards” for instructional
purposes, and can be used as a true set of tarot cards for professional-quality tarot readings.
Enjoy!
Daniel Joseph Min
July 1, 2004
Contents
Ch 1 – Groundrules ...........................................1
Ch 2 – Tree of Life .............................................3
Ch 3 – Ten Heavens.........................................11
Ch 4 – Twelve Signs.........................................32
Ch 5 – Court Cards..........................................47
Ch 6 – Pip Cards..............................................52
Ch 7 – Solar System .........................................60
Ch 8 – Trinity ..................................................62
Ch 9 – Music of the Spheres ............................65
Min’s Compleat Tarot Pak ............................104
Chapter 1
Groundrules
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TAROT IS an interface for helping believers in psychic or paranormal powers
beyond our five senses to establish meaningful contact herewith. The seasoned
practitioner of tarot may use this marvelous and powerful tool to communicate
with spirits of the dead, or to predict future events, else for more traditional readings of the present, past and future — by its revelation in the cards.
You may ask questions of the spirits of the tarot, and receive answers by shuffling and
drawing cards from the deck, or ask your client to do the same. Really, the only limit for how
you can use the tarot is the limit you have imposed on it, not it on you. Be creative, spontaneous, above all be yourself. Be confident in your innate God-given abilities. Find the method
that works best for you and use it, develop it, learn to master your techniques.
The usefulness of tarot can best be appreciated by laying down some ground rules first, so
that as you gain familiarity with tarot, you can build your psychic house of knowledge on a
firm foundation of scientific facts & astronomical truths, beginning with the universal principles of cause and effect, action and reaction. These form the basis of life itself, of all existence.
For example, consider light and darkness, as in contrast to itself, as with white against
black. How do we know that something has light, if not by noticing the absence of light, i.e.
darkness? This is commonly symbolized by the yin and yang, the feminine and masculine aspects or forces of the universe, energies which both contrast with and complement each other
simply and profoundly, passively and actively, “weakly” and “strongly”.
The keyword here is completely. Yin or yang, by themselves, are incomplete thus are inseparable since the universe is complete as everything in the universe is part of itself, all part
of One. Do you know your right hand from your left hand? Of course you do. Clasp your
hands together and see how they naturally interlock as if one fist. The wife and husband are
joined together as one, as the circle which holds the yin & yang is one, even as the planets of
our solar system are one. Ten planets, heavens and spheres, as one system.
And so we’ve established this first ground rule for learning and using tarot: Interconnectivity! Synchronicity! Our primary rule states that all existence in the universe is interconnected,
in some way or another — ways we can’t even imagine, but also in ways that we can study &
understand.
Let us rejoice that we’re all a part of the One. We’ll call this our LAW OF ONE like Edgar
Cayce used to talk about in his psychic readings. For contrast against the One, we’ll call it
BABYLON, also in honor of Edgar Cayce as he used to call children of fragmented philosophy
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the “children of Belial”, or as this ancient word “lbb” means ben Babel, “the children of confusion by mixing”. It’s all in the bible. You can look it up later.
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Ground Rules
As our first ground rule, we’ll acknowledge our at-one-ment with the universe, giving
thanks to its Creator and the Gods who are altogether One. This is fundamental to understanding how to use the tarot, since every one of the seventy-eight cards in the deck has a definitive relationship with the other, each being precisely defined by astronomical truths and
astrological deductions, by the divine Law singing the quintessential music of the spheres.
This makes a good invocation before beginning a session of tarot readings, e.g., the Muses
who sing and are of One mind and One voice as One divine symphony praising the immortal
Gods & Goddesses, lead us in thy modes of truth and songs of love. You may even want to
sing it, or chant a mantra in the language of your choice…it’s up to you.
It can be any words or songs of your choosing said aloud or in silence as long as you say
something kind in the presence of God who is everywhere always. Give thanks in whatever
way you are comfortable with. Remember you must ask for divine guidance. Ask and ye shall
receive. Knock, and the door opens. Have faith that the divine power will guide you. Say a
prayer for your clients in their presence. It doesn’t have to be religious, just heartfelt and deliberate. Practice tarot in good faith and you’ll succeed. If you doubt that Tarot can help, then
it’s likely that you’ll fail to get any helpful or veracious reading from the cards. Show faith by
works and be confident the Gods can help you. Keep this in mind while reading the cards.
In the next lesson, we’ll practice the ten-card spread by using the ancient tree of life layout.
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Chapter 2
Tree of Life
THE TEN-CARD ancient “tree of life” layout is among the easiest to learn and most effective
procedure for casting a tarot reading, but is by no means the only layout you should try using.
I prefer the ten-card layout, since it’s generally in keeping with the traditional kabalah, the ten
“ineffable sephiroth” to quote the Sepher Yetzirah, an ancient scripture reportedly based on the
work of the sovereign astrologue Abraham — which it most likely is, considering its highly
profound and astrologically-accurate context.
The ten positions of the cards in the tree of life layout are clearly defined, and are also directly associated with the ten planets, the ten, heavenly spheres of divine consciousness called
the ten sephiroth, as previously noted. While the planets are examined in more detail in later
chapters, this chapter will help you to get started with laying out a tarot spread using the tree
of life as our layout template.
There are some excellent graphical depictions of the tree of life available on the internet
and in books, but unfortunately, none of them are completely accurate regarding the planetary
positions. The following chart is entirely correct, and is depicted using simple ASCII text:
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Tree of Life
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The cards are shuffled. Whether or not you want to include inverted or “reversed” cards in
your tarot is simply a matter of personal preference. I recommend placing all cards upright no
matter if they’re initially dealt inverted or not. You will find it easier to learn what you are doing. Later, as you gain experience in tarot readings, you may wish to accommodate card reversals, and read them as you see fit. By not using them you will find it less confusing, and easier
to read, and certainly less intimidating to your clients.
Personally, I’m not convinced that it makes any difference if a card is dealt reversed, just as
any astrological chart has only an upright view. Some tarot readers associate the inverted cards
with planets in retrograde, but only ten of the seventy-eight cards in the tarot deck represent
planets in the first place and more importantly, the ten planets refer to its sidereal positions,
but not synodic position as would-be retrograde planets. This principle is thoroughly explained in later chapters. For now, try casting a chart using the above tree of life layout. You
should shuffle your cards at least once before dealing them. Be aware that some tarot readers
use only the major arcana, while others prefer the minor arcana, and may use an ordinary
deck of playing cards in place of the 56-card minor arcana (the “pages” of the elements account for extra cards).
I recommend using the entire 78-card tarot deck at all times for doing readings since each
card has a very specific astrological meaning, which the major or minor arcana alone can not
account for. Again, this is explained in later chapters. Also, if you’re reading for someone else,
it is customary to allow your client to cut the cards into three smaller piles then select the
middle pile of cards and set all the other cards aside (i.e. assuming at least ten cards in the
middle pile or else you must borrow from another pile).
Once you have the cards in hand, deal ten cards in the following order. Do not, I repeat do
NOT deviate from this order, or your reading may be in error. How do we know this? Because
the tree of life is made by paths from one heaven to the next, and in a very specific order at its
fundamental roots. You can change the order of the paths, but then you must change the corresponding planetary positions accordingly. E.g., you place the first card in the position of the
Moon if you like, then place the second card in the position of Mercury, etc. Just make sure
that the position of the planets does NOT deviate from the charts on the preceding and following page. In any case, I recommend laying out only one card at a time, and always read it according to its planetary position, then proceed to the next. NOTE: the planets shown in
parentheses correspond to the planetary position of that card, not the card itself. Understand?
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Now we come to the fun part, actually READING the cards! One by one as you deal them
out in the above “tree of life” layout, you’ll learn the basic meanings from reading the following chapters on the planets and signs, the houses and horoscopes, since that’s exactly what the
Tarot represents. As in the above layout, the first planet is Uranus who is associated with “new
beginnings”, and the card that conjuncts Uranus indicates a planet, or caelestial sign, or a
house of the horoscope, or other meaning depending on the card that you’ve placed here. For
example, you may have placed the “Empress” in this first position, meaning Venus, sphere of
hope, beauty, justice and equilibrium, she is adding hope & beauty to this new beginning for
Uranus, playing her major Ionian modality to Uranus’ natural minor Aeolian. Try playing
these modes on a piano or other keyboard, and you can immediately hear how these complement each other by switching between minor & major. Much, much more could be said of
Venus conjunct Uranus, but I’ll say it simply for now. You’ll should study the following chapters if you want to learn judicial “tarot-astrology” basics. Armed with this knowledge, then
you’ll be reading these cards faster and more meaningfully for your family, friends and clients.
The following three charts are provided for convenient reference to a common piano keyboard, since these list their precise correspondences using classic “tarot-astrology” nomenclature in the seven diatonic modes of the sidereal planetary orbits about the Sun (solars) and the
twelve chromatic tones of the synodic planetary orbits or phases to the Earth (lunaires). Just
remember that the seven, fixed diatonic modes are transposable across the twelve fixed chromatic tones in each octave, thereby producing the eighty-four unique key signatures of the
Gods (ref. complete “84 key signatures” charts and associated charts in chapter 9):
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Chapter 3
Ten Heavens
FUNDAMENTAL TO LEARNING to read the tarot is the study of its astronomical and astrological
basis, beginning with the ten planets, our solar system.
Each planet is numbered according to its orbital distance from the Sun with the lone exception of the Moon, since she orbits the Earth thus orbits the Sun epicyclically. The orbits of
the planets are called the “Solars”, meaning sidereal orbits, the orbital period with respect to
distant stars.
This chapter will introduce you to these planets and their astrological meanings for use in
tarot, For additional astronomical or mythological data on the planets, search the internet or a
library. Note also that the outer planets Uranus, Neptune & Pluto, are only briefly summarized in this chapter. Same goes for the Moon, since everyone is already familiar enough with
it, at least astronomically (the outer planets & the Moon are covered thoroughly in my fourth
book ‘Planetary Awareness Technique’; on the Google-archives and in print where available).
#I THE MOON
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Trump: THE MOON
Planet: The Moon
Roman: LVNE/Diana
Greek: Artemis/Hekate
Sphere: Foundation
Synodic: 29.53
Sidereal: 27.322/0.075
Heaven: First
Arcana: Ace
Pitch: A > C
Species: lesser natural
Order: W-H-W-W-H-W (7)
Mode: Aeolian
Muse: Klio
Goddess: History
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The tarot card of the Moon symbolizes the first sidereal heaven the Moon, sphere of Imagination whose muse is Klio, the lesser natural which is the Aeolian (Hypodorian) mode, composed of Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn — in that order, with Moon first
of the sacred seven, her natural minor commensurate with the heavens.
Morpheus, the formation of dreams, son of sleep Somnus. “These things said he and after
that he saith unto them, our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go that I may awake him out of
sleep”-John 11.
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Souls incarnated from the lunar souljourn bring with them exceptional powers of imagination and as a result tend to be easily influenced by the suggestions of others & susceptible to
hypnosis.
The shadowy depths of the Moon hold vast oceans of “unconscious” thought, dreams, and
fantasies. Moon souls are dreamers and so make imaginative and oft-talented artists, musicians, authors of fiction and other pursuits which benefit from a prolific imagination. But the
Moon is emotional, so her recent graduates ought to be careful not to let emotions run your
life. The Moon loves a distraction, a diversion, an active social life, so take care, O Moon,
you’d best keep your vows.
#II THE MAGICIAN
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Trump: THE MAGVS
Planet: Mercury
Roman: MERCVRII
Greek: Hermes
Sphere: Intellect
Synodic: 115.9
Sidereal: 87.969/0.241
Heaven: Second
Arcana: II
Pitch: B > C
Species: lesser w/b2 & b5
Order: H-W-W-H-W-W (7)
Mode: Locrian
Muse: Kaliope
Goddess: Epic
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The tarot card of The Magician symbolizes the second sidereal heaven of Mercury, this
sphere of Intellect whose muse is Kaliope’; the theoretical Locrian mode (lesser w/b2 & b5
ancient Mixolydian) is composed of Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Moon, in
that order, which is the 2nd order of the heavens.
Calculating, logical — not necessarily rational — mind; apt pupil quick to deduce and
evaluate, connects the “dots” — too fast at times; tends to be prejudgmental. Souljourners incarnate from Mercury bring expediency of mind, quickness of inductive and deductive reason,
with superlative logic, master of the sacred letters, geometry, proportion, perspective, “analytical” mind.
Consider the 3:2:1 resonance of Mercury who rotates on a slightly-oblique axis of about 2
degrees very nearly 1.5 times (1.5000) for every 360-degree sidereal orbit (87.97046 earthdays) around the Sun. As a result, one solar day on Mercury — i.e. axial rotation with respect
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to the Sun, but not to the distant stars as a sidereal period is calculated — that solar day
would appear to a Mercury-bound observer to take almost exactly two side- real years to complete; therefore, it takes just three sidereal rotations of Mercury to complete two sidereal orbits, ergo its 3:2:1 ratio of day-to-year resonances, and is but one example of 100s of
predictable conjoins.
Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, is our second- hottest planet before Venus. Mercury can be seen as a morning or evening star just above the horizon, since Mercury is so close
to the Sun, thus can only be seen just after sunset or before sunrise — near its maximum
elongation therefrom. Mercury’s appearance is similar to Earth’s heavily cratered Moon, except
the coloring of Mercury consists of more brownish sepia-like tones.
Mercury’s daily temperature delta varies between 270* F (168*C) in the middle of the
night, rising up to a whopping 800* F (427*C) in broad daylight. Mercury’s long sidereal day
averages about 1407.60 earth-hours (58.646 earth-days to complete one, 360* revolution).
Mercury’s high density (5.44) is second only to Earth (5.50), and has an equatorial diameter of about 3,031 miles (4,878km; cf. Earth at 12,756km or 7,926 miles). The element Mercury, aka quicksilver, is alchemically associated with quick-mindedness and inconstancy like
Mercury’s untamed locrian modality whose taming comes by Neptune on Mercury’s diatonic
octave. From Mercury, the apparent size of the Sun’s fiery disc varies, 1.1 to 1.6 degrees due
to Mercury’s eccentric orbit — that is, two to three times larger than the Sun appears to Earth.
O what a fearful sight that would be to behold.
Mercury, Hermes, the cleverest and oft-most deceptive of the Olympian Gods with winged
sandals and caduceus in hand. Hermes son of Zeus and the most beautiful of the Pleiades,
Maia (04Tau53’25” +4:23’25” J2000), who is clustered together with her sisters near 5 degrees
Taurus. Hermes, the God of boundaries, landmarks, and guideposts; the God of trade, commerce, and metrology.
Mercury’s persuasive often deceptive speech is common to political and business acumen,
the home and social life, thus Hermes is the God of thieves and deception, cunning, conniving, popularly known as the “Trickster” or Magician of the Major Arcana. Hermes is deemed
God of epic literature and oratory, also God of athletics.
In ancient times, statues of Hermes were often placed at crossroads to bestow blessings and
guidance on tra- velers. It was the duty of travelers to place a stone at roadsigns, to help improve the roads and make them more passable for future travelers. Thereby the Greek word
for the built-up stone landmarks became hermaion, in honor of Hermes. As with each new
undertaking, the ancient Greeks would seek the counsel from Hermes and doctors of medicine have prayed to Mercury ever since.
Kaliope’ is called “chief” of the Muses, no doubt for her Locrian modality not really favoring any one muse apart from herself. She is pictured as representative of the muses just as
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Mercury is pictured as messenger or representative of the Gods. She’s portrayed seated, holding a stylus and writing tablet. Other depictions have her standing crowned with laurel leaves,
holding a pipe, or a manuscript entwined with laurel. Notably, the steam-driven whistle organ
invented by A.S. Denny in 1850 USA was named for Calliope, who is said to be mother of the
Sirens (fathered by Achelous). In Greek, Kalliopeia means “fine-voiced”, since Hermes invented the kithara(lyre), syrinx from reeds (pan-flute), and some say fire perhaps due to his
proximity to the Sun.
#III THE EMPRESS
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Trump: THE EMPRESS
Planet: Venus
Roman: VENERIS
Greek: Aphrodite
Sphere: Beauty
Synodic: 583.9
Sidereal: 224.70/0.615
Heaven: Third
Arcana: III
Pitch: C > C
Species: greater natural
Order: W-W-H-W-W-W (7)
Mode: Treble Ionian
Muse: Terpsichore
Goddess: Dance
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The tarot card of The Empress symbolizes the third sidereal heaven of Venus, the sphere of
beauty, perfection & balance. Her muse is Terpsichore, or greater natural Ionian modality (ancient Lydian), who begins the third order of the heavens which is Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Moon, & Mercury, in that order. Souls incarnate from the Venus souljourn are naturally loving, patient, kind, merciful, and appreciative. Venusians love love, love all that is
beautiful and refined, as gestalt or synergy in the arts, symmetry, natural-beauty.
Terpsichore is muse of “the dance”, or one who participates to the music of the spheres.
Venus transceives her graceful, beautiful and well-balanced participation upon the resonant
octave of her greater perfect Ionian mode with Pluton-Hades.
Venus is the second planet out from the Sun at a mean (semi- major axis) orbital distance
of 0.723332 AU (108,208,930km). Notably, where Venus is sufficiently elongated from the
Sun and the sky is crystal-clear, Venus can barely be seen with the naked eye in broad daylight in drier or desert climates and lower air pollution as in pre-modern times. At 12,103.6
km in equatorial diameter, Venus is nearly the same size as Earth (12,756.3 km). Venus ro-
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tates clockwise along her axis (looking south), instead of counterclockwise like Earth and the
other planets. Venus rotates very slowly, and spins “up- sidedown” on her slight axial inclination tilted 2.64* (i.e. nearly perpendicular to her heliocentric orbital plane), so is in perpetual
retrograde rotation at approximately 177.4*.
One 360* sidereal-day of Venus equals -243.0187 (retrograde) solar earth-days, longer
than her sidereal-year @ 225 earth- days, so one solar-day on Venus equals about 117 earthdays. With respect to Venus, the morning Sun would appear to rise in the west instead of the
east, but only under her ambient light, never by direct sunlight, since Venus is perpetually
covered by heavy clouds — clouds so thick it’s impossible to see her surface from above. This
dense overcast is composed mainly of sulfuric acid reaching 35 miles above her surface (the
highest clouds on Earth reach 10 miles for comparison). These clouds are fast moving, circling
the entire planet in about four earth days. The composition of Venus’ incredibly dense atmosphere is about 96% carbon dioxide, & 3% nitrogen, and notably with only trace amounts
(0.003%) of water vapor.
Venus appears as a pale sulphur-yellowish disc, beautifully photographed in mosaic by the
Mariner 10 spacecraft back in 1974. Then the images returned from the Magellan spacecraft in
1990 revealed deep reddish, orangish, and yellowish high- lights on the planet’s surface,
where her daily temperature averages about 870*F (452*C) because of the clouds trapping
solar heat, creating a highly-efficient Venusian greenhouse effect with intense atmospheric
pressure at the surface 90+ Earth-atmospheres — that’s over 1300 psi! Although the cloud
layers spin around above the surface like a hurricane there is little wind velocity down at the
surface itself, with no rainfall or oceans whatsoever since the pressure repels the sulphuric rain
droplets cycling among the clouds like virga — a far cry from what orthodox academia expected to find up there. For example, in his book, ‘Asimov on Astronomy’ (pub. in 1974 Doubleday; cf. ‘Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus’ first published in 1954 ibid), Asimov
acknowledges the unex- pectedly hot atmosphere of Venus as follows: “We [now] know that it
is dreadfully hot (hot enough to melt lead!), dread- fully dry with an unbreathable atmosphere
of carbon dioxide that is dreadfully thick”. Decades earlier in 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky anticipated that Venus would reveal surprisingly greater surface temperature than anyone previously expected.
Greek Aphrodite translates as “foam-born”, raised up out of a handful of dust and seafoam…as Kronus castrated Ouranos and cast his cosmic testicles into Earth’s ocean, combining stardust and spittle (cf. Aphrodisias, sexual); see chapter one of Genesis in the old
testament, the sixth and last day of creation is Venus’ Day, the mode of humankind’s creating.
Aphrodite was worshipped as “Goddess of the Sea” by ancient seafarers who relied heavily on
stars for navigation. Homer refers to Venus as daughter of Zeus & Dione, and the fickle
spouse of the lame blacksmith God, Hephaistos (Lat. Vulcan).
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Aphrodite’s most powerful lover is Ares, and so she is said to be mother of Anteros, Eros,
Harmonia, Phobos, and Deimos by their father Mars (see Lesson #V The Tower) Aphrodite is
also said to be mother of Aeneas and Lyrus by Anchises, and Hermaphroditus by Hermes,
Eryx by Poseidon, also Priapus by Dionysus. Venus is the most beautiful promoter of fertility,
and patron goddess of prostitutes (in the vulgar sense when you stop and think about it). Her
numerous epithets include Anadyomene, sea-born; Genetrix, creator; Eupoloios, meaning fair
voyage; and Pandemos of all people. Her Empress traits are shared by middle-eastern, & eastern fertility Goddesses, particularly Astarte, & Ishtar (cognate to I’star for which Easter is
named, cf. the bright morning star…of Bethlehem). Hence, the ankh, astrological symbol for
Venus, is engraved in the garden tombe of Joseph of Aramaethea located outside the ancient
gates of Damascus (just north of old Jerusalem).
Ishtar is the one great Goddess of the heaven in Babylonian mythology — verily the Empress. The Greek myths of Aphrodite similarly reflect life’s cyclic nature, that the Gods often
engage in divine “conflict” out of which the Gods incarnate to live and die again and again
throughout the grand cycles of life according to the divine purpose of creation. Greeks were
powerfully attracted to Aphrodite as the goddess whose love & hope resurrects her lover out
of the depths of Hades.
#IV THE SUN
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Trump: THE SUN
Planet: Sun
Roman: SOLIS/Apollo
Greek: Apollon/Helios
Sphere: Majesty
Synodic: n/a
Sidereal: 365.26/1.000
Heaven: Fourth
Arcana: IV
Pitch: D > C
Species: lesser melodic
Order: W-H-W-W-W-H (7)
Mode: Dorian
Muse: Melpomene
Goddess: Tragedy
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The tarot card of The Sun symbolizes the fourth sidereal heaven of Sol, the sphere of
strength, power and majesty. His muse is Melpomene, or lesser melodic Dorian modality (ancient Phrygian) who begins the fourth order of heaven namely Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Moon, Mercury & Venus, in that order. Souls incarnated from the splendor of the Sun bring
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with them spiritual strength, courage, and the heliocentric infinity-forces (see Lesson #VIII
The Star), the assurance of fixed stability, reliability, steadfast resolve. Solar souls know the
sun-blots of consciousness (dark depressions on the photosphere are called sunspots).
Melpomene holds the mask of tragedy complementing Thalia muse of Neptune — who
holds the mask of the divine comedy (see Lesson #IX, The Hermit). Melpomene is depicted
hold- ing in her right hand the mask worn by tragedians and in her left hand the roll containing her parts to be played. Her robe is beautifully draped in generous folds while a mantle falls
over her shoulder. Sometimes she’s pictured wearing a diadem or wreath, and holding a small
sword or club to mete out Sol’s tragic endings. Dorian is tragedy.
The Sun is average as middle-aged yellow stars go but is near enough to the Earth to project a magnitude of minus 26.8. At 886k miles mean equatorial diameter, the Sun is half-way
between the largest and the smallest observable stars, so is classified common yellow spectrum
class G2V. The sidereal rotation period of the Sun is slower at the poles than it is at the equator, variable between thirty- six days down to twenty-five days respectively above the convective zones, with 25.38 days clear down to the core. In synodic terms, this breaks down to
about 26.8 days at the solar equator, 28.2 days at 30* solar latitude, 30.8 days at 60* latitude,
31.8 days at 75*. The mean synodic rotation number of the Sun (Carrington) is ~27.2753
days.
At the solar core, temperatures are believed to reach up to fifteen million degrees Kelvin;
cooler on the surface at 5800 K, sunspot umbra 4240 K, penumbra 5680 K, chromo- sphere
between 4300 to 50,000 K & corona between 800,000 to 3,000,000 K. All this energy creates
immense pressure at the core estimated at 340,000,000,000 (billion) Earth- atmospheres i.e.
nearly 5,000,000,000,000 (trillion) psi.
When viewed through filters, the Sun appears to glow red- orange with a fiery, flaming
edge, but is far too hot to maintain permanent surface features — its luminous sphere in a
perpetually energetic gaseous state composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. The energy of
the Sun comes from nuclear fission, or its conversion of hydrogen to helium which energy
migrates up to the surface and radiates out into space as extra-radioactive solar wind. Solar
flares occur without warning, sending billions of particles out into space. This solar radiation
is what prevents manned missions into outer space beyond the Van Allen Belt. See?
At birth, Zeus presented Apollon with a cap, a lyre, and a chariot drawn by sacred swans,
who circled seven times around the island of Delos whence Apollo was born on the seventh
day of the month Bysios, var. Pysios, “lunisolar month of oracular inquiry.” [Mestrius Plutarchos, ‘Greek Questions’ 292.D.9ff; cited as Plu.2.292e; IG22.1126.45]. The seventh of Bysios
was usually just before the spring, although the ancient Greek calendar varied from place to
place and from year to year by inconsistent or localized intercalary leap-year rules, festivals,
temples, rituals, etc. Ancient traditions hold the Hebrew-Egyptian priest Moses was also born
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on the seventh day of the lunarsolar month Adar(II) the seventh day of which is also, usually,
just before spring. Notably Moses’ souljourn was the Sun. Likewise, Apollo was regarded as
the powerful God of law and order. Moses & Apollo are competing for the same God.
Thus the number seven and seven swans are held sacred by Apollo, who is depicted as
wearing a crown of seven rays. But rather than being fed mother’s milk he was nourished with
sweet nectar and quickly threw off his baby clothes to assume his manly form. The myth continues that Apollo set forth with his bow and arrow, in search of sanctuary. He settles in a
mountain gorge where awaits the terrible dragon Python who’d been summoned there in order to kill Apollo’s mother, Leto. Instead, Apollo kills Python with one of his powerful arrows
(reminiscent of “coronal mass ejection” and intensely-powerful, radioactive solar wind).
After patting himself on the back and setting a crown of laurel leaves upon his own head,
Apollon establishes his sanctuary in the valley of Phokis (cognate focus) at the center of
Greece on the southern slopes of Mt. Parnassus, at the oracle of Pytho which was renamed
Delphi (delphis, dolphin) in honor of this powerful God’s first mammalian incarnation. It was
at this shrine, the presiding oracle Pythia whose predecessors had similarly conjured visions
and dreams of the past, present and future (since remote antiquity, according to some they
would speak in tongues) willingly devoted her talent to the exceedingly-powerful, youthful
and radiant God. Apollo’s attributions match up well with his classic mythology, his radiant
strength in Leo, his youthful joy, & his children of the fifth house.
Apollo’s victory over Python was celebrated every eighth year during the Delphic festivals
of Stepterion. Notably, there were many other oracles such as those operating in Delos, Tenedos and elsewhere, and not only in Greece but all over the world. But the most important oracle in the world would become the Oracle at Delphi. Because Apollon had slain Python, Pythia
became personal oracle. Thus it was that Apollon acquired the world’s most famous oracle and
place of sanctuary, along with the Delphic Tripod of Plataia (Constantine the 1st would later
remove the last of these Delphic tripods and take it to his “Hippodrome” in then Constantinople). The tripod originally served as a chair for the presiding oracle. Its saddle was a large
golden bowl solidly affixed to three long elegant golden slats for its legs — though ancient
depictions show three heavier vertical golden columns as the tripod’s supports, as depicted on
the most ancient Greek coins and works of art — often shown topped with three golden rings
or hoops called omphalos, which in the Greek means “world’s navel” or umbilical chord, the
center of whose navel (Pluton at the center of Earth) is shown as a smooth white stone or pebble. The white stone is said to represent the Earth’s divine energies which is centered as gravity is centered about her sphere. The ring on the chair’s back served as back support or
lumbar terminal, with two rings in front for the priestess to grip tightly with her hands, as the
second and third conductive terminals to amplify Pythias connection with the Earth’s energy
centers as if raising Kundulini through the seven major chakras…root, sacral, solar, heart,
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throat, brow, & crown. It seems the tripod enhanced the oracle’s psychic senses by “connecting” her with Mother Earth. According to some, the famous Delphic oracle made utterances in
divinely-inspired verses which only the temple priest could interpret, but the oracle’s prophecies were usually equivocal, or just too ambiguous to be understood at the time, its meanings
undiscernible until those events came to pass: then her prophecy could clearly be understood.
Is it any wonder that Nostradamus’ prophecies predictably frustrate gentile audiences until
after the fact — confounding them all the more! Better to recognize that prophecy & fulfillment share common roots.
In order that Apollo could enjoy the brilliance of skies throughout the year, he would leave
Delphi at the autumn- al equinox and travel to the land of the hyperboreans on the northern
shores of the river Ocean, which flowed all around the Earth. At the vernal equinox, Apollo
returned to Delphi where nightingales would sing in welcoming him back home. The Hyperboreans enjoyed eternal lives before banishment, chastisement, pain, suffering and death came
upon the world. Apollo is the vanquisher of all darkness.
Just as Artemis (see Lesson #I The Moon) launched arrows causing the death of females for
whom the cause of death was undetermined, so her twin brother Apollo sent arrows which
brought death upon males whence the cause of death was undetermined. Thus Apollo and
Artemis work in tandem, astronomically balancing the masculine & feminine traits. Recall that
Apollo and Artemis killed seven sons & seven daughters of Queen Niobe, since she’d compared them with the Sun & Moon in Leto’s presence…fatal miscalculation!
“The Sun, that is Apollo, is Leader of the Muses, and inasmuch as He completes our life with good order, He produces in the world Aesculapius; for
even before the world was He had the latter by his side.”—Emp. Julian ‘Upon
the Sovereign Sun’
Aesculapius (Asklepios), god of medicine, was the mortal son of Apollo by Coronis, hence
Homer refers to Apollo’s son in the human sense as a “skillful physician” who was so skillful at
healing that he could even raise the dead. This made Hades feel threatened, and so he complained to Zeus, who in turn struck Asklepios down with a lightning bolt — on account of his
healing practices threatening to void Hades’ underworld, by raising all men from the dead. We
can view this in the temporal sense as raising a dead person back to life only to have them inexorably die all over again at some later date. However, to rise from the dead in the eternal
sense insists that soul-body be made Christ-indivisible. This is healing on the highest order.
To paraphrase the great historian Josephus, don’t be too surprised that our human body is
created to live forever.
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Notably the skilled physician personified by Aesculapius had special talents in surgery and
made use of medicinal plants, crystals, and all manner of homeopathic remedies reminiscent
of the shaman or tribal witchdoctors, verily of the Mercurian souljourn (see Lesson #II The
Magician). Among Aesculapius’ children, are his two daughters named Hygeia (hygieinos, hygiene, healthful) and also, Panacea (panakeia, cure-all for every illness, fix-all for every problem such as the mythical fountain of youth). Mercury & Apollo are the spheres of healing, just
as cleanliness, Hygeia is next to godliness, Panacea! So the hippocratic oath sworn by physicians (who pray to Hermes) begin with an invocation for the great physician Apollon, Asclepius, Hygieia & Panacea, and all the other Gods & Goddesses of the Pantheion. Note here that
the single caduceus (Lewis & Short dictionary states “kind. Gk kerukeion a herald’s staff…a
staff of peaceable embassy…orig. olive-stick with stemmata which afterwards were formed
into serpents) as the staff of Asclepius became the double-helix symbol. In Dr. Max Luscher’s
‘The Luscher Color Test’ on page 63 he writes: “Yellow corresponds symbolically to welcoming warmth of sunlight…to the cheerful spirit…happiness.”
#V THE TOWER
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Trump: THE TOWER
Planet: Mars
Roman: MARTIS
Greek: Ares
Sphere: Victory
Synodic: 780.0
Sidereal: 686.98/1.881
Heaven: Fifth
Arcana: V
Pitch: E > C
Species: lesser w/b2
Order: H-W-W-W-H-W (7)
Mode: Phrygian
Muse: Eratho
Goddess: Lyric
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The tarot card of The Tower symbolizes the fifth sidereal heaven of Mars, the sphere of
warmongering, combativeness, hostility, madness, wrath, hypersensitivity, irritability, temper,
conquest, aggressiveness, audacity, assertiveness, bellicosity, frenzy, daringness, persistence,
victory etc.
The muse of Mars is Eratho, or diatonic modality of lyric which is the Phrygian mode
(lesser w/ b2, ancient Dorian), beginning the fifth order of heaven, namely Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Mercury, Venus, & Sun, verily in that order.
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Mars is the fourth planet out from the Sun & first planet beyond Earth’s own orbit at a
mean distance of 1.52366231 AU (227,936,640km J2000), thus is sidereally fifth heaven. At
6,794 km equatorial diameter (0.5326 ER), Mars is over half the size of Earth. Mars appears
red to the naked eye, and when viewed through a telescope the feared Red Planet reveals his
dark markings, his reddish, ferruginous, even pinkish colorings. Mars is covered by iron-rich
dust with many basaltic(igneous) rocks — owing to the composition of its crust. White icecaps at the poles are composed mainly of frozen H2O (water) and carbon dioxide (dry ice).
These features respond to Mars’ tropical seasonal changes which result from its ~25.19* rotational obliquity to its helio- centric orbit (i.e., Mars’ equatorial tilt to the Martian ecliptic i.e.
some 1.8506 degrees inclined to the Earth’s ecliptic). Thus for astrological charts on Mars,
we’d use the Martian ecliptic (not Earth’s). Mars takes almost two tropical Earth-years (present
long-term average 1.8808476) to complete one, 360* sidereal orbit; averaging 24.622962
earth-hours (1.02595675 solar earth-days) to complete one, 360* sidereal rotation. On the
long-term average, a solar day of Mars is equal to about 24 hours, 39 minutes & 35.2 seconds
— or less than forty minutes longer than one solar day on Earth. This daily period varies significantly, due to Mars’ moderate orbital eccentricity of 0.09341233(FK5).
There’s evidence that Mars was once a lot warmer, and had plenty of flowing liquid water,
indicative of climate and seasons similar to those of Earth — in view of the myriads of driedout river canals apparent on the Martian surface; e.g. the deep line of green named the Mariner Rift Valley.
It must’ve rained or snowed in the Martian mountains then ran down cutting channels and
forming riverbeds. Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, at 17
miles (27 km, 90,000’) elevation and 320 miles(520 km) across! Most believe this “missing”
water was frozen into the Martian permafrost although a planet-wide catastrophe would also
account for this now-parched atmosphere. There are cratered spots on Mars believed to be
extinct volcano vents. These craters fill up temporarily with dust during windstorms then
empty out again after each tempest passes. (cf. anger which almost instantly “fills up” then
empties just as quickly; cf. starry cup concerning soul’s descent into matter, ref. Macrobius,
Bk. I. Ch. 12). These planet- wide dust storms can last several weeks and coincide with Mars’
winter solstice in the northern hemisphere which in turn coincides with Martian perihelion
(i.e., the nearest approach to the Sun). Mars exhibits somewhat “Earth-like” seasons, but more
extreme with greater daily and seasonal variation in pressure and temperature etc. than any
other planet in the solar system — but it wasn’t always the case.
Mars’ thin atmosphere rises sixty miles above the surface, and is composed primarily of
carbon dioxide (95.32%) with 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, 0.13% oxygen, 0.03% water, and
0.00025% neon. The Martian surface is very cold & dry and is covered with a plentitude of
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rocks and boulders — and a plethora of anomalous monuments and causeways, which seem
to be remnants of a long-forgotten civilization gone awry.
Mars has no ozone layer and has no oceans. Like its dried- up channels and riverbeds,
whole ancient floodplains bear testimony to the abundance of water which used to sustain life
on Mars. At present there is little or no protection from intense solar radiation, although Mars
receives only about half the solar energy as what continuously bombards the Earth & Moon.
At the Martian equator, the temperature ranges from 80 degrees Fahrenheit in broad daylight,
then plunges rapidly to an arctic-like -150 degrees F at night.
Many astronomers have reported a controversial phenomenon called the blue haze also
seen as a violet layer apparent in photographs taken with red and blue filters. Rationale for
this phenomenon abounds, but explanations are dubious.
Mars’ pronounced red color stands in contrast to its dark markings. Mars’ two companion
satellites, Phobos & Deimos, are so named for fear and terror, stifling and paralyzing effects
against our initiative by terror and dread. These twin fearmongers accompany Ares, the ambitious God of war, son of Zeus & Hera, brother of Aphrodite, Arge, Eileityia, Eris and Hebe. By
Aphrodite, he was the father to Anteros, Enyo, Deimos, Harmonia, Pallor and Phobos. Ares
generally is less popular and less successful in his endeavors than other Olympian Gods.
Athena personified nobler aspects of warfare, glory, honor and victory, while Ares personified
more brutal aspects of warfare, and so was often depicted as wearing military armor. Ares is
the “bully” of Gods, a brute inclined to commit violence, shed blood and plunder.
The dog and vulture are Ares’ escutcheons, being first to brave the battlefields. Also, the
wolf and the woodpecker are held sacred by Ares. To be an offshoot of Mars refers to Ares’
souljourners, heroes who demonstrate great valor and formidability via fighting against worthy
adversaries.
As the myth goes, Ares was caught in a “love affair” with Aphrodite. Her husband Hephaestus caught him then exposed him to ridicule, revealing that Ares had behaved dishonor- ably.
In contrast, the Roman Mars is named after Ares who became honored above Jupiter as chief
God of the conquest, and so The Tower is symbolic of an unconquerable conquest.
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#VI THE EMPEROR
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Trump: THE EMPEROR
Planet: Jupiter
Roman: IOVIS/Deus
Greek: Zeus
Sphere: Charity
Synodic: 399.9
Sidereal: 4332.2/11.86
Heaven: Sixth
Arcana: VI
Pitch: F > C
Species: greater w/#4
Order: W-W-W-H-W-W (7)
Mode: Lydian
Muse: Euterpe
Goddess: Melody
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The tarot card of the Emperor symbolizes the sixth sidereal heaven of the “king planet”
Jupiter, sphere of augmentation, enlargement, expansiveness, joviality, nobility, excellency,
affluence, privilege, dignity, charitableness, universality, universalism, benevolence, exuberance, immunity, leadership, governance, farsightedness, travel far and abroad, holistic,
broadminded, comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, “eagle-eyed”.
The muse of Jupiter is Euterpe, diatonic modality of melody which is the Lydian mode
(greater w/#4, ancient Hypolydian), the sixth order of the heavens, being Jupiter, Saturn,
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun & Mars, very specifically in that order.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest astronomical planet in the solar
system (the Sun is rightly called a planet by sovereign astrologues as is Gaea’s Moon).
The Jovian Giant orbits far beyond Mars, and far beyond the asteroid belt, at mean distance
of 778,415,560 km, or about 483,685,000 miles (5.20336301 AU @ J2000). Jupiter measures
142,984 km at the equator(88,850 miles) spinning like a top with a sidereal day of merely 9
hours 55 minutes 27 seconds, i.e., constantly rotating at over 28,000 mph at the equator. One
360* sidereal orbit of Jupiter takes about 11.8626 mean tropical Earth-years to complete
(synodic year 1.095 years).
Jupiter appears as a giant striped orb whose bands of color, clouds and storms run parallel
to the equator — its patterns rapidly changing in both width and color due to the dynamic
weather activity within. The atmosphere of Jupiter is thick, 10s of 1000s of miles deep, which
could constitute the mass of the entire planet; described as 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, traces
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of methane, ammonia, water & miscellaneous compounds, as being put under increasing
pressure at the Jovian depths.
Jupiter was well-named by the ancients as the “king” planet, IOVIS in the Latin, & Zeus of
the classical Greek pantheion, supreme ruler among the heavenly realms — verily The Emperor. Jupiter exerts an especially strong gravitational influence on the orbits of comets, hence
the Jupiter family of comets. Jupiter has an intense radiation belt in its magnetic field or magnetosphere, a source of very powerful radio emissions.
Jupiter is surrounded by no less than 28 natural satellites, including the well-known Io,
Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Galileo viewed Jupiter’s four brightest moons using a crude
telescope hence these were dubbed the “Galilean” satellites.
Speaking of which, quoting from an article dated 11/30/2001, surprising observations were
made for Jupiter’s moon Europa:
“‘This extra thick layer of ice near the poles wants to spin out toward the
equator’… But because the ice is locked into a global crust, it cannot simply
spin out in all directions. Instead, the entire shell of the moon wanders. This
effect was originally predicted by Gregory Ojakangas and David Stevenson in
1989.”
In fact, the great “sleeping prophet” Edgar Cayce described just such crustal-displacements
in his readings on Atlantis and other prehistoric high-cultures whose extant corruption
brought them worldwide cataclysmic destruction. Even Albert Einstein postdicted this decades before 1989, where he said:
“In a polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth’s rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is
transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point
produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s
body…”—Albert Einstein, from his foreword to professor C.H. Hapgood’s
‘Earth’s Shifting Crust’ p.1
Continuing with Jupiter… The Great Red Spot is observed to be a complex storm, whose
colossal clouds reach thirty miles atop surrounding regions. Jupiter is extremely cold at its
surface, with a mean cloud temperature of -121* C. The temperature is believed to rise above
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6,000* K at a depth of 10,000 km (6200 miles), and is under extreme pressure, enough to
break hydrogen atoms down into a liquid metallic state — said to be near one million b.
Jupiter’s main ring is about 6500 km (4000 miles) wide with an outer perimeter about
129,000 km (80,000 miles) measured from Jupiter’s geocenter. There’s a halo within the ring
at its edge, some 20,000 km (12,500 miles) thick and 30,500 km (19,000 miles) wide. Beyond the main ring are two “gossamer” rings, one beginning at the main ring’s outer perimeter
and about 52,000 km (32,000 miles) wide, the other beginning at 181,000km (112,000
miles) and 40,000 km (25,000 miles) wide. The main ring is very thin, less than 10 km (6
miles) thick.
Zeus is the sixth and youngest son born under Titans Kronos & Rhea (masculine & feminine energy of the same God of time). Upon the birth of Zeus, Rhea presents Kronos with a
blanket concealing a stone — which Kronos promptly swallows when his rings are edge-on
(every 14.75 years per long-term averages), fearing that one of his children shall succeed his
reign by election in the war of ten sidereal years, i.e. ten planets each from their respective
sidereal orbits in the spirit of prophecy. Hence, Zeus rules in the heavens, and so our king
planet is represented by the tarot card of The Emperor. See? Essentially, the brightness of Zeus
shineth through charity. The Jupiter souljourn can be likened to jolly ole’ St. Nick whose concern for others(poor in spirit) is put into action. To care for others, to care about others. That
is supremacy.
Zeus fathered myriad children by as many mothers, including the Seasons by the Titaness
Themis, Eunomia, Dike, Eirene & the Fates; by Demeter Zeus begat Persophone; and Muses
born of Mnemosyne; the Graces by Eurynome; the twins Apollon and Artemis by Leto; Aphrodite by Dione; Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia and Hephaestus by Hera. Beyond this, a plethora of
children are attributed to Zeus’ amatory propensity to be fruitful & multiply, by seducing both
goddesses and mortal women alike!
As the most exalted God on Mt Olympus, Zeus is known as the God of brightness. The eagle is held sacred by Zeus, flying above and beyond where mortal eyes can see. His attribution
is the thunderbolt, the highly-focused power of the heavens. Thus Apollo is said to scatter the
arrows of Zeus on mortal man, his rays(thunderbolts) of enlightenment upon the world.
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#VII JUDGMENT
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Trump: JUDGMENT
Planet: Saturn
Roman: SATVRNI/Scythe
Greek: Kronos
Sphere: Judgment/Time
Synodic: 378.1
Sidereal: 10760./29.45
Heaven: Seventh
Arcana: VII
Pitch: G > C
Species: greater w/b7
Order: W-W-H-W-W-H (7)
Mode: Mixolydian
Muse: Polihymnia
Goddess: Hymnody
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The tarot card of Judgment symbolizes the seventh sidereal heaven of Saturn (Gk. Kronos),
the seventh heavenly sphere, the scythe of time. Saturn is the height of limitation and reflection, contemplation and introspection, that boundary of experience defined by its oft razorsharp, cutting edge. Scythe, sickle, machete. It’s over, it’s finished, the end.
Saturnian, saturnine, the sabbath, sabbatic seventh, seven times seven the overworked land
lay fallow and rejuvenates. O hallowed number VII your heavens and earth are completed.
The Gods blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it the Gods rested from all His
works which He had made.
The muse of Saturn is Polihymnia, diatonic mode of hymnody, meaning “many hymns” in
the Mixolydian mode (greater w/ b7, ancient Hypophrygian) —the seventh order of heaven:
Saturn, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars and Jupiter, in that order.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun at a mean distance of 1,426,731,900 km or about
886,530,100 miles (9.53707032 AU J2000). Saturn measures 120,540km (74,900 miles) at
its equator and has a mean sidereal day of 10 hours 39 minutes 22 seconds i.e. rotating
22,000 mph at the equator — nearly as fast as Jupiter’s sidereal day (see Lesson #VI Emperor).
One sidereal orbit of Saturn takes about 29.44750 tropical Earth-years to complete (synodic
year equals ~1.035 years).
Although nearly 75,000 miles across at the equator, Saturn measures significantly less,
about 67,500 miles, along the poles and so is the most oblate planet in our solar system. Saturn’s composition is described as mostly hydrogen (97%), 3% helium, with traces of methane
and ammonia; thus is the least-dense planet in our solar system is 70gm/cm^3 or 30% less
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than water. Saturn’s appearance is similar to Jupiter but is fainter with soft yellow and gold
atmospheric bands, thus ancient mythological associations of Saturn with gold.
Saturn’s breathtaking system of rings turn edge-on as seen from Earth on average every
14.75 tropical Earth-years. As classical mythology recounts “Saturn swallows his children”
when the rings are invisible. Hubble space telescope shows that these rings are never completely invisible but almost.
Briefly, the rings are designated by the letters A through G, with a couple of significant
gaps in between. These are, in order of their discovery, rings ‘A’ 122,200km, B 92,200, C
73,200, D 67,000, E 230,000, F 140,600, & G 170,000; the significant gaps are named the
Cassini Division at 119,000, and Keeler (Encke) Gap at 133,500. Each ring & gap has its own
orbital period ranging from 4.9 hours for the ‘D’ ring, to 31.3 for ring ‘E’. Of these major ring
divisions, rings A, B & C are wide, and plainly visible through a telescope. The other ring divisions are much fainter and difficult to see. Each ring is subdivided into 1000s of “ringlets”
that are, for the greatest part, only two to three dozen meters thick and are made of ice crystals
and assorted impurities.
When Galileo first viewed Saturn’s rings, they were nearly at maximum angle to Earth. At
other times the rings seemed to disappear prompting Galileo to ask Has Saturn swallowed his
children?…in reference to Saturn’s ancient mythology.
The most common photographs of Saturn are taken with rings at their greatest angularity
to the Earth. However, due to Saturn’s orbital eccentricity (0.054151 J2000), the Sun is seen
to illuminate Saturn’s northern hemisphere for nearly 15.75 tropical Earth-years whereas the
southern hemisphere sees less than 13.75 years of sunlight, so these intervals average 14.75
years. Notably, Nostradamus referred to this maximum angle of the rings as “Saturne fenera”,
translated verbatim “Saturn turned and Sun-dried”. That’s interesting, since Galileo was born
barely two years before Nostradamus died in the summer of 1566. Understand? A little over
half of the ring-disappearing acts are described as oscillating triple passages by astronomers,
lasting 8.5 to 9 months as Saturn crosses back and forth, south-north-south and north- southnorth, as viewed along the plane of Earth’s ecliptic.
There are eighteen confirmed moons of Saturn, plus a dozen or more “provisional” satellites pending some verification. Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons at 5150km (3200 mi).
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#VIII THE STAR
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Trump: THE STAR
Planet: Stars/Uranus
Roman: Caelest.Firma./Uranus
Greek: Kosmikos/Ouranos
Sphere: Infinity/Extremes
Synodic: 369.7
Sidereal: 30685./84.02 (Uranus)
Sidereal: 1.00004 (Earth-stars)
Heaven: Eighth
Arcana: VIII
Pitch: A < C
Species: lesser natural, +bass
Order: W-H-W-W-H-W-W (8)
Mode: Bass Aeolian
Muse: Urania
Goddess: Astronomy
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The tarot card of The Star symbolizes the eighth sidereal heaven of Ouranos & Uranus for
which the three “rungs” in the numeral VIII inspires the golden ladder rising beyond Saturn’s
binding rings of time (see Lesson #VII Judgment), reaching the constellations upon the caelestial firmament in clear-view of the fixed stars illuminating the heavens, in clair-voyance of
nearby Neptune(see Lesson #IX Hermit).
Ouranos, Uranus, sphere of new beginnings on the resonant octave of the lunar foundation; the deepest, the furthest, the faintest, the subtlest — drawing upon the most intense contradistinctions and starkest of all possible contrasts, black or white, all or nothing, it’s this way
or that way.
The muse of Ouranos, Uranus, Urania, diatonic modality of astronomy, begins on the bass
octave of the Moon’s lesser- natural Aeolian mode (ancient Hypodorian) and is composed of
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which is the eighth order of the heavens and is the first order to include Neptune and Pluto on Mercury’s and Venus’ resonant
lower octave, respectively. The Uranian is ultra- sensitive, hyper-receptive; at times to extreme
opposites, unresponsive, unreceptive, the switch is either on or off and may toggle between
these opposites at breakneck speed.
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#IX THE HERMIT
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Trump: THE HERMIT
Planet: Seasons/Neptune
Roman: Mobile/Neptune
Greek: Poseidon
Sphere: Wisdom/Sapience
Synodic: 367.5
Sidereal: 60190./164.8 (Neptune)
Sidereal: 1.00000 (Earth-seasons)
Heaven: Ninth
Arcana: IX
Pitch: B < C
Species: lesser w/b2 & b5 +bass
Order: H-W-W-H-W-W-W-H (9)
Mode: Bass Locrian
Muse: Thalia
Goddess: Divine Comedy
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The tarot card of The Hermit symbolizes the ninth sidereal heaven of Poseidon and the waters aloft terra firma, which includes Gaea’s seasons, oceans, rivers and streams, upper and
lower atmosphere, her climate from solid ground to the vacuum of inner space. Everywhere
water is about the Earth, solid, liquid and vapor, Neptune rules over the clouds and ice, rain
and hail, sleet and snow, as underground springs Poseidon rules over earthquakes, cataclysms
& earthchanges, her seasonal variations, wholly the Earth’s tropical realm.
Poseidon, Neptune, mighty sphere of wisdom on the resonant bass octave of Mercury’s
Locrian mode (ancient Mixolydian); whose muse is Thalia, the divine comedy via Neptune,
Pluto, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon — exactly in that order, which is the ninth, diatonic sidereal order of the heavens.
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#X THE FOOL
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Trump: THE FOOL
Planet: Earth/Terra Firma/Pluto
Roman: EMPIREVM/Primum Mobile
Greek: Empeiros/Gaea/Hades
Sphere: Center of Activity
Synodic: 366.7
Sidereal: 90800. 247.9 (Pluto)
Sidereal: 0.00000 (Earth-geocentric)
Heaven: Tenth
Arcana: X
Pitch: C = C
Species: greater natural, +middle
Order: W-W-H-W-W-W-H-W-W (10)
Mode: Center Ionian
Muse: Mnemosyne
Goddess: Memory
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The tarot card of The Fool symbolizes the developing tenth sidereal heaven of PlutonHades and his Wealth under terra firma, clear down to the white pebble at Earth’s geocenter,
the center of activity where the Gods & Goddesses converge in the brilliant white light of the
Empireum, the Empyrean, our crystalline mother of psychometric memories. Mnemosyne and
her nine radiant daughters, 10 diatonic sidereal modes of heaven gathered together primum
mobile, heaven-on-earth, our sphere of activity, the terrestrial houses of the Gods in the temple of the Living God. You should say I REMEMBER!
Pluton-Hades, our central sphere on the resonant octave of Venus’ greater perfect *Ionian
mode(ancient Lydian) at the center of human hearing: Pluto, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Moon
& Mercury, in that order, which is the tenth sidereal order of the heavens — the ephemeris or
daybook of the Gods.
*FOOTNOTE ON MODALITIES OF URANUS, NEPTUNE & PLUTO: The three outer
planets who are symbolized by the tarot cards of The Star, The Hermit, and The Fool, respectively, their three modalities are actually composed of eight planets, nine planets, then ten
planets, respectively. The precise correspondence of each planet, muse, mode, trump card,
etc., are summarized by the following chart:
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DIATONIC SIDEREAL MODES IN THE OCTAVE
(Tarot,Orbit,Planet,Pitch,Mode,Muse,Goddess)
Tar S# Pla Key Mod Mus God Relative Middle C
FOO 10 Plu C Ion Mne Mem <=C equal middle C
HER 9 Nep B Loc Tha Com <=B below middle C
STA 8 Ura A Aeo Ura Ast <=A below middle C <=bottom
--------------------------------------------JUD 7 Sat G Mix Pol Hym <=G above middle C
EMP 6 Jup F Lyd Eut Mel <=F above middle C
TOW 5 Mar E Phr Era Lyr <=E above middle C
SUN 4 Sun D Dor Mel Tra <=D above middle C
--------------------------------------------EMP 3 Ven C Ion Ter Dan <=C above middle C <=top
MAG 2 Mer B Loc Kal Epi <=B above middle C
MOO 1 Moo A Aeo Kli His <=A above middle C
As to see in the table above, the sidereal modality of The Star (Uranus) is composed of
eight tones not seven, and The Hermit (Neptune) is composed of nine tones, not eight or
seven, and finally, The Fool is composed of fully ten tones not just nine, eight or seven as its
sidereal predecessors. That is exactly why, for example, the sidereal modality of The Star is the
Aeolian mode per the bass octave of the Moon, and so is composed of eight tones, with emphasis on the A below middle C or the resonant bass octave of the Moon. See? The same principle holds for Neptune and Pluto (Hermit & Fool), proving incontrovertibly that the sidereal
ethoi of the muses Urania, Thalia, and Mnemosyne, are distinct from Klio, Kaliope, and Terpsichore, by virtue of their added bass tonality, thus are inclusive for the three outer planets;
and so Uranus has 8 tones, Neptune has 9 & Pluto has 10.
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Twelve Signs
HAVING STUDIED the ten planets of the major arcane in the previous chapter, now it’s time to
focus on the synodic phases of the planets to the Earth, as are called the signs or ensigns, the
forces of the planets to the Earth by their relative motion hereto. The simplest way to understand this is to look at the chart below. Notice how the planetary order is indicated by arrows
as “inferior” and “superior” with inferior signs from Aquarius to Cancer, while the superior
signs are from Leo to Capricorn. See?
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For the five planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, each makes two signs in the
zodiac, as having one inferior and one superior sign. This is explained thoroughly in later
chapters, so all you need to know for now is that superior planets move closer to the Earth
after reaching the far side of the Sun, while inferior planets move away from Earth after reaching the near side of the Sun. It’s easy once you understand the simple principles involved.
With that said, here’re the twelve planetary signs of the caelestial zodiac, literally made by
planetary motion relative to the Earth, hence synodic phases:
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#1 THE DEVIL
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Trump: DEVIL
Glyph: Ram
Quality: Ambition
Ensign: Aries
Bearing: 0*-30* (east above)
Number: 1
Tone: C
Color: Red
Ruler: Mars-inferior
Roman: Martivs/March
Babylon: Nisanu/Nisan(Abib)
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The tarot card of The Devil is signified by the caelestial sign of Aries. The Devil’s chromatic
color is Red, and his chromatic tone is C. The Devil’s chromatic ensign is Mars-inferior, i.e.
the malefic force of Mars receding from the Earth; Mars, fifth heaven (see Lesson #V The
Tower) in red-shift, in separation from martian souls incarnate on Earth.
Aries is self-important, self-centered, putting self first, i.e., self in opposition to others, opposing consciousness of others. Aries is self-conscious, self-aggrandizing, self- promoting, badtempered, aggressive, forceful, an evil-doer when left to his own devices. But don’t forget,
every card, ensign, planet, god, all find their place in the pantheion.
#2 THE HIEROPHANT
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Trump: HIEROPHANT
Glyph: Bull
Quality: Passion
Ensign: Taurus
Bearing: 30*-60* (north east)
Number: 2
Tone: C#/Db
Color: Red-Orange
Ruler: Venus-inferior
Roman: Aprilis/April
Babylon: Aiaru/Iyyar(Zif)
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The tarot card of The Hierophant is signified by the caelestial sign of Taurus. The Hierophant’s chromatic color is Red-Orange, his chromatic tone is Db/C#, and chromatic ensign is
Venus-inferior, the malefic force of Venus receding from the Earth; Venus, third heaven (see
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Lesson #III The Empress) in red-shift separating from venusian souls who are incarnated upon
the Earth.
Taurus is the advocate for temporal living, passionate for life in the body. Taurus opposes
death of the self, opposing the sting of death. Taurus, the constellation, begins near Gorgona
Tertia (rhPer J2000 00Tau07’15.522” +20:34’34”) and Algol (bePer 01Tau22’40.423”
+22:25’48”), centered on Aldebaran (alTau 15Tau00’00.000” -5:28’03”), notably ending on
the Great Pyramid star Alnitak (zeOri 29Tau53’35.804” -25:17’38”) and Alhecka (zeTau mag
3.00 29Tau59’45.675” -2:11’45”).
The Great Alnitak Pyramid, which was built nearly 12,500 tropical years ago, is the longsince withering altar in the midst of Egypt, & where the oracle took commencement; hence
the ankh adorns the empty tomb, just as the empty vault in the king’s chamber symbolizes his
life-eternal (Edgar Cayce talks about this via the psychic readings).
Hence Taurus is the universal symbol for temporal living, temporal experience in the body,
our temporal life which ends in death of the body — the wages of sin. Understand? As the
bright morning star, Venus was known to the Greeks as Phosphoros, Latins as Lucifer, Lucificus, light-bearer, son of morning who “dies” as he is overpowered by the Sun.
On average some 220 days past superior conjunction, Venus reaches maximum elongation
from the Sun, leaving about 72 days until the next inferior conjunction (292 days total). Venus retrogrades on average for about 42 days, centered on inferior conjunction. Note 157
mean-synodic periods of Venus equals ~251 tropical years, as 1871 sidereal years of Venus
equals ~720 mean-synodic years of Venus — which equals about 1151 tropical Earth-years.
These are well-known examples of synodic multiples, such as Venus’ almost exactly 8 tropical
Earth-year multiple at maximum synodic elongation (next on June 8, 2004, again 8 years
later, on June 6, 2012, etc.).
Most synodic multiples of the planets are very predictable, recurring over long periods of
time with subtle variations due to the dynamics of their orbits, which variations are also predictable. The ancients were adept at making these long-term predictions based on the synodic
multiples, just as Nostradamus did to predict superior & inferior conjoins for his quatrins, as
his epistle toward Henry II of France.
In approaching her superior conjunction with the Sun, Venus is “lost” under the saturation
of sunlight, remaining hidden from view for an interval that lasts about ninety earth-days,
with superior conjunction occurring near the 45th day of the interval. Venus orbits the Sun
about 1.626 times faster than the Earth does (note here that the Sun appears to orbit Earth
hence the relative sidereal orbital period of the Sun equals exactly one sidereal year of the
Earth). Venus and Earth both have relatively low orbital eccentricities i.e. near-circular sidereal orbits, Venus about 0.0068 (J2000), & Earth 0.0167.
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Venus emerges as the bright evening star (i.e. visible after sunset) approximately 45 days
after her superior conjunction (to the Sun; see Lesson #7 Justice). Venus continues to move
closer to Earth until about the time of inferior conjunction (Sun-Venus-Earth syzygy), very
near to her closest approach to Earth. Starting about 4 days before inferior conjunction, Venus
disappears from view as she is obscured once again by the sunlight where she remains hidden
for about 8 earth-days (cf. 90 earth-days, centered on Venus’ superior conjunction).
Near inferior conjunction Venus approaches within 25 million miles of Earth, then about 4
days after inferior conjunction, Venus emerges at heliacal rising — just barely visible before
sunrise, becoming progressively more prominent as the bright morning star as her rising occurs earlier and earlier before sunrise — as Venus recedes from Earth. This period is malefic
for souls incarnated from Venus, as this inferior separation, most brightly portrayed by the
planet Venus, exemplifies our second death, that “cut-off” point of soul from its heavenly souljourn and simultaneous incarnation as a mortal being, or “son of man” in the ancient tongue
(son in the neuter gender). Is it any wonder then, that Venus’ day, that venerated sixth and
last day of creation, is the day of humankind’s creating?
This is true in the profoundest sense, as a planet needn’t be receding for a souljourn to occur, but is in the active-tense of *separation*: the distancing of soul’s heavenly realm away
from its earthly experience…much reminiscent of a lost love as our recently disembodied
souls were cast down to the Earth:
“How you are cut off from the heavens, O Lucifer son ofmorning! You are
cast down to the earth, making sinfulhumans vulnerable.”—Isaiah 14:12, literal translation
The sacred letters are thus recounted as Lucifer & his angels fall into mortal living — virtually identical to ancient Mayan myths of Quetzalcoatl, for whom the Mayans reckoned a
584-day cycle between superior conjunctions, or inferior conjunctions. The Mayans referred
to soul’s incarnating as “Quetzalcoatl’s descent to earth”, with Venus’ emergence as the morning star symbolizing his (i.e. his/her) first arrival, Quetz’ birth or incarnation as a sinful human. Near superior conjunction, we discerned the Sun & Venus to contend in inexorable
duel, the contest to the death verbatim reminiscent of Nosty’s quatrin:
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C5Q53
La loy du
Sol & Venus contendus
The law of the Sun & Venus contended
Appropriant
l’esprit
de prophetie:
Appropriating the spirit of prophecy:
Ne l’vn
ne l’autre
ne
seront entendus,
Not the one nor the other neither will be heard,
Par Sol tiendra
la loy du
grand Messie.
By Sun will hold the law of the great Messiah.
--interlinear translation by Daniel Joseph Min
And so the Hierophant, advocate for temporal experience who is signified by the universal
sign of Taurus, is advocating soul’s incarnation in its mortal body and is opposed to the sting
of death. Taurus is passionate for life, for all that temporal living means to us as souls incarnated in our body, promoting all the pains & pleasures of soul-body experience.
#3 THE LOVERS
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Trump: LOVERS
Glyph: II (twins)
Quality: Communication
Ensign: Gemini
Bearing: 60*-90* (north below)
Number: 3
Tone: D
Color: Orange
Ruler: Mercury-inferior
Roman: Maivs/May
Babylon: Simanu/Sivan
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The tarot card of The Lovers is signified by the caelestial sign of Gemini. The Lovers’
chromatic color is Orange, and chromatic tone is D. The Lovers’ chromatic ensign is verily
Mercury-inferior i.e. the malefic force of Mercury receding from the Earth; Mercury, second
heaven (see Lesson #II The Magician) in red-shift, in separation from mercurial souls incarnate
upon the Earth — as Mercury zooms around the Sun along its sidereal orbit of under eightyeight earth days. Mercury’s orbit is the second most eccentric in the solar system, about
0.2056 (cf. distant Pluto, at about 0.2528).
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The glyph for the “Gemini twins” is named for the II, ergo the Roman numeral II, numbering the second sidereal heaven. Because Mercury is numbered second, expressly according to
its sidereal orbit, the stellar Gemini twins Castor (alGem, 25Gem27’08.049” +10:05’45”) &
Pollux (beGem 28Gem25’37.723” + 6:41’02”) signify the relationship of the mortal and the
immortal as the communication between mortals and the Gods, between soul’s earthly experiences, and soul’s disembodied experiences among the heavenly spheres. That’s why Mercury
is said to be messenger of the Gods, always nearby the Sun, quick-footed, quick-thinking
Mercury flying away in heaven, his Locrian mode “stealing” from the Gods as he goes along.
#4 THE CHARIOT
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Trump: CHARIOT
Glyph: Crab
Quality: Imagination
Ensign: Cancer
Bearing: 90*-120* (north above)
Number: 4
Tone: D#/Eb
Color: Orange-Yellow
Ruler: Moon
Roman: Jvnivs/June
Babylon: Duzu/Tammuz
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The closest of your silver exerts two primary phases to the Earth, waxing and waning, evening and morning, benefic and malefic. Her evening phase begins at the molad or mean lunarsolar conjunction. The thin, new crescent of the Moon or neomenie (lit. “new mensis”), generally can be seen one or two days after Moon-Sun conjunction — weather permitting. As each
waxing Moon becomes more and more prominent in the evening skies, her “horns” are seen to
hang in view of the populace, until the first quarter, when the Moon begins waxing protuberant towards the full Moon, which is Sun-Moon opposition when the full Moon rises at lunar
morning just as the Sun sets at solar evening. The full Moon commences her inferior lunar
phase of waning malefic, reaching third quarter, until the Sun fully consumes the waning lunar crescent and the mensis begins anew.
The tarot card of The Chariot is signified by the caelestial sign of Cancer. The Chariot’s
chromatic color is Orange-Yellow, and its chromatic tone is Eb/D#. The Chariot’s chromatic
ensign is the Moon waxing superior and waning inferior, i.e. benefic and malefic forces of the
Moon, respectively. The Moon is the first heaven (see Lesson #I The Moon). The Chariot
represents the lunar “roller-coaster” of human emotions waxing silvery & waning shadowy,
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her momentum, as with the moment of lunar inertia, particularly for lunar souls incarnate
upon the Earth.
The Chariot is the ensign of unconscious energy ergo collective unconscious — the stuff
dreams are made of. Nostradamus referred to the Moon as: “l’on feroit de votre argnterie”, literally, the one closest of your silver in his excellent Interrogation of Thieves Who Steal Sacred
Things, warning tropical astro-illogers against “stealing” the sacred objects — the heavens —
from their places on the caelestial sphere: as Nosty shows by his astrological diagram dated
February 3rd 1562, in reply to corrupt church officials of Orange (which notably is the color
of Mercury-inferior, the one who steals from fellow Gods)…so reader beware!
The Moon has the shortest and fastest sidereal orbit of all the planets, and so is naturally
numbered 1st, hence the Ace, among the heavens. The Moon completes each sidereal orbit in
about 27.32 days—less than a third that of Mercury’s 88-day sidereal year. Moon’s synodic
period (mensis, Gk. men, measure of a month) is the time between consecutive Sun-Moon
conjunction on the superior side, & Sun-Moon opposition inferior. Sun-Moon syzygies occur
twice about every 29.53 days, once superior, and about a fortnight later, inferior.
As a result, the Moon appears to move rather swiftly through her synodic phases and
against the caelestial firmament, as compared with any of the other planets. The Moon has
slightly more mass to one side, so that the familiar lunar “disc” always points toward Earth.
Thus the dark side of the Moon isn’t really dark but is more accurately the far side of the
Moon, getting the same amount of sunlight per lunar phases that are the opposite or mathematical complement of the common lunar phases seen from Earth. A definitively feminine archetype, the Moon presides over the menstrual cycle which lasts on average 28 (21-35)
days…time enough for the Moon to complete a sidereal and synodic year. The Harvest Moon
rises in the evening as a marvelous yellowish-to-orangish disc near the autumnal equinox. Notably, orange-yellow is the chroma-color of Cancer.
The benefic, waxing personality of Cancer is Artemis, thereafter her malefic, waning personality is Hekate. Thus Artemis is associated with the north lunar node or head of the
dragon, and Hekate is associated with Lilith/tail of the dragon. The three-headed Cerberus
who stands sentinel at the gates of Hades (the broad entrance into the underworld) is Hekate’s
“familiar” spirit, thus images of Cerberus were commonly placed at remote crossroads in
honor of our Invincible Queen. Like Artemis, Hekate holds a burning torch signifying that she
is the nocturnal goddess by shadows of night. Hekate is revered as our supreme Goddess of
the craft.
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#5 STRENGTH
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Trump: STRENGTH
Glyph: Lion
Quality: Power
Ensign: Leo
Bearing: 120*-150* (north west)
Number: 5
Tone: E
Color: Yellow
Ruler: Sun
Roman: Jvlivs/July
Babylon: Abu/Ab(Av)
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The Sun, the power of destiny, exerts two primary phases to the Earth, night and day, evening and morning, sunset and sunrise, malefic and benefic. The rule of day is for Apollon-Re,
the rays of the Sun, while the rule of night is for the heavenly spheres, the Moon and the Stars
also (of the Stars, Sol [Gk. Helios] numbers fourth in orbit).
The Sun shines perpetually upon the Earth which revolves sidereal-daily, while she orbits
the Sun sidereal-yearly, resulting in her solar-daily rotation; i.e. with respect to the Sun. The
slowly-precessing obliquity of the Earth on her axis of rotation to the Sun results in a tropicalyearly orbit which is Earth’s tropical year in the angle of sunlight irrespective of her daily rotation i.e. only with respect to the gyrating axis of her daily rotations but without regard to the
periodicity of daily rotations.
The Sun gives the greater light, and is the power-giving heart of our solar system. The Sun
is by far the largest body herein. The Sun verily is the nearest star to Earth, averaging precisely
one astronomical unit (AU) in radial distance (149,597,870.7km; 92,955,807.2 mi) in the
short- term and slowly closing this distance over the long-term.
The most radiant of the Gods is the central orchestrator who holds the divine instruments
of consciousness in the orbits to which they formed and continue to evolve. Note that Artemis(Diana), Apollo’s twin sister, appears to be almost exactly the same size as her shining twin
brother since she is 400 times smaller & 400x closer than Apollo. as becomes self-evident
during a total solar eclipse. Un- like any of the other planets, the Sun & Moon both do in fact
orbit the Earth: the Moon epicyclically and the Sun relatively; so Artemis & Apollo work in
tandem, exerting their twin feminine and masculine energies Night and Day.
The tarot card of Strength is signified by the caelestial sign of Leo, whose chromatic color is
Yellow, & chromatic tone is E. Strength’s chromatic ensign is the Sun, rising superior and setting inferior, i.e. the benefic & malefic forces of the Sun, respectively. The Sun is fourth
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heaven (see Lesson #IV The Sun). The constellation Leo was named for the Lion, whose sharp
fangs (ergo sharp sickle) serve to “devour” the planets as they approach their respective superior conjunctions. Leo is known as king of the jungle, ergo the royal and majestic constellation
of his namesake beginning near Subra, depicted by the Sphinx’s “left paw” (omiLeo
29Can27’25.544” -3:45’25”), Regulus, the “bearded star”, or “heart” of Leo (alLeo
05Leo02’19.526 +0:27’53”), and Rho Leo, depicted by the “right paw” (11Leo35’52.786”
+0:08’59” J2000). While the Sphinx is certainly far older that the Pyramids at El Gizeh plateau, it is notable that the precessional age of Leo had very nearly just begun as the Great
Pyramid was beginning to be built cir 10,490 BC; given ~25,626.8304 tropical years per great
year, divided by 12, equals ~2,135.5692 tropical years per zodiacal age (i.e. ~780,000 solar
days/age) barely 30 years difference! It is more likely that the Sphinx was quarried out during
the prior age of Leo which began approximately ~36,100 BC, or perhaps an even older age of
Leo, beginning ~61,700 BC.
In any case, Leo is revered as the majestic constellation ruled by the Sun and he is strong
indeed! Leo is strength, he’s the POWER of destiny in our solar system experiences.
#6 THE HIGH PRIESTESS
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Trump: PRIESTESS
Glyph: Virgin
Quality: Virtue
Ensign: Virgo
Bearing: 150*-180* (west below)
Number: 6
Tone: F
Color: Green
Ruler: Mercury-superior
Roman: Avgvstvs/August
Babylon: Ululu/Elul
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The tarot card of the High Priestess is signified by the caelestial sign of Virgo, whose chromatic color is Green, and chromatic tone is F. Her chromatic ensign is Mercury- superior, the
benefic force of Mercury closing by radial velocity. The Virgin is persistent, meticulous, thorough, healing, planting, growing, your proverbial “green thumb”.
The stars of Virgo include Alkaid (etUMa 02Vir08’28.548” + 54:23’00” J2000), Vindemiatrix (epVir 15Vir08’46.184” + 16:12’12”), and finally, Spica (alVir 29Vir02’45.136” 2:03’15”) & Arcturus (alBoo 29Vir26’16.363” +30:44’00”) i.e. the caelestial meridian near the
beginning of Libra.
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#7 JUSTICE
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Trump:
Glyph:
Quality:
Ensign:
Bearing:
Number:
Tone:
Color:
Ruler:
Roman:
Babylon:
JUSTICE
Scales
Justice
Libra
180*-210* (west above)
7
F#/Gb
Green-Blue
Venus-superior
September/September
Tashritu/Tishri
(Ethanim)
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The tarot card of Justice is signified by the caelestial sign of Libra, the universal fulcrum
wielding the scales of justice. The chromatic color of Justice is Green-Blue, and her chromatic
tone is Gb/F#. The chromatic ensign of Justice is Venus-superior, her benefic force closing the
distance to Earth; Venus in blue-shift is beneficial for venusian souls incarnated upon the
Earth. Remember, this pertains to each and every soul’s collective experiences through the
heavens over long epochs of soul’s evolution. Justice promotes consciousness & the awareness
of others. Justice opposes the Devil thus the Devil opposes Justice.
Justice is the universal archetype of grace, beauty, and balance, as her shimmering ruler
Venus is second only to the Moon in apparent magnitude or brightness. Thus it is that the
evening star is the brightest representative of Hesperos, Lat. Vesper, the Goddess of evening,
naturally the wife of Atlas, since it is he who holds up the Earth for our treasures in heaven,
the “golden apples” of Hera defended by the “hesperides”, the seven immortal maidens.
After all it is Venus whose love and devotion resurrects her lover out out of the depths of
Hades…”Adonis lives, he is risen again!” this, in deference to Venus’ undying love for Adonis.
Venus is called Adonai, an ancient name for the one called Love—who reigns over the heavens
and the earth; in the Hebrew ynda (shortened Nda), pronounced awdone’. Since the actual
name of God is unpronounceable, Adonai is used as a pronounceable substitute parallel to
Yahweh, the God of love, i.e., the eternal power of love; as was the epithet of Aphrodite, the
lovely evening Star.
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#8 DEATH
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Trump:
Glyph:
Quality:
Ensign:
Bearing:
Number:
Tone:
Color:
Ruler:
Roman:
Babylon:
DEATH
Scorpion
Vitality
Scorpio
210*-240* (south west)
8
G
Blue
Mars-superior
October/October
Arahsamnu/Heshvan
(Bul)
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The tarot card of Death is signified by the caelestial sign of Scorpio, the sting of Death…the
wages of sin. Death to the self in opposition to the Hierophant, who naturally opposes the
Scorpion. The chromatic color of Death is Blue whose chromatic tone is G. The chromatic ensign of Death is verily Mars-superior, benefic force, a helping of non-sticky zen, a change will
do you good, a new beginning, thus Uranus exalts under the Scorpion (see Lesson #VIII The
Star), embracing new experiences.
The great forces of Mars encompass the forces of Venus. The Scorpion expends temporal
vim, vigor and sex drive. Mars in blue-shift is beneficial for all martian souls incarnate upon
the Earth. Death is the universal arche- type of vitality, contrast, self-surrender. What do we
surrender in death? That which the Hierophant promotes, those pains and pleasures of temporal human experience; passion for life and death of that passion. Understand?
The forces of change, the crossroads, fork in the road (see Lesson #V The Tower). PlutonHades rules over the inferior Scorpian aspect, the underworld, diis manibus. Past Cerberus,
ferried by Charon across Styx, oblivion, five rivers, Phlegethon, Acheron, Styx, Lethe, Cocytus;
Pyriphlegethon (the river of fire), Acheron (the river of eternal woe), Cocytus (river of weeping and wailing), Lethe (river of forgetfulness), Styx (river of hatred); (see Lesson #VII Judgment); souls by fate into Elysion, the golden age of Saturn, else Tartaros outer darkness,
eternal damnation, where the woodbine twineth, and the iceman cometh not. How will *you*
fare at the Judgment? Vast riches await those to whom nothing is not assured.
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#9 WHEEL OF FORTUNE
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Trump: FORTUNE
Glyph: Archer
Quality: Fortune
Ensign: Sagittarius
Bearing: 240*-270* (south below)
Number: 9
Tone: G#/Ab
Color: Blue-Indigo
Ruler: Jupiter-superior
Roman: Nouember/November
Babylon: Kislimu/Kislev
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The tarot card of Wheel of Fortune is signified by the caelestial sign of Sagittarius the
chromatic ensign of Jupiter-superior, the benefic force of Jupiter closing the distance by radial
velocity—verily beneficial for souls incarnated from the Jupiter souljourn. Chromatic color is
Blue-Indigo, plus the chromatic tone is Ab/G#.
Fortune, chance, the benefic force of the great planet Jupiter — encompassing the orbit of
Mars, and the orbit of the asteroid belt. Jupiter, king planet (see Lesson #VI The Emperor)
promotes dignity, honesty and charity; free to expand and explore, to seize new opportunities.
Faith, hope, charity. The greatest of these is charity.
Sagittarius A* which is the compact yet incredibly powerful radio source at (or very near)
the center of the Milky Way galaxy, makes the caelestial sign of Sagittarius the most universally energetic sign in our stellar zodiac (albeit the dynamical center of the galaxy is considered to be sgrab, cf. sgra).
Sgr A* is rightly called the Sun of our Sun. Mayan astronomers, for example calculated i.e.
predicted the conjunction of the winter solstice Sun and the sacred tree which is the apparent
intercept of the ecliptic and galactic planes 5 degrees Sagittarius (which occurs at 11:11:23 UT
21-Dec-2012) to occur on “13 Baktun” (13.0.0.0.0) — which in fact it does, marking the end
of the fifth age of the Sun, since there are exactly 5 ages of the Sun per great year of tropical
precession, with each solar age making about 1,872,000 solar days which is 5125.366 years.
With the sacred tree located at about five degrees Sagittarius, Sgr A* is located two degrees
therein; the sacred tree near Sinistra nuOph 04Sag57’11.426” +13:39’55”, Sgr A*
02Sag03’06.794” -5:36’27” J2000. The galactic and ecliptic plane-intercept near the galactic
center Sgr A* is about 3 ecliptic degrees 9 minutes and 36 seconds east of Sgr A* 02Sag03’07”
-5:36’27” (FK5) i.e. about 05Sag12’43” referencing Aldebaran 15Tau00’00” -5:28’03” on the
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J2000 epoch. But the 2012 winter solstice occurs at 05Sag01’12”, that’s more than ten arcminutes from modern values.
Notably the winter solstice of Tuesday December 22, 1998 01:56:26 UT, marks the first
birth of the Sun at the tree since the last 1st solar age one great year ago circa 23,615 BC (52.0.0.0.0; JD-6903717), by using the modern definition for “galactic plane” and using Aldebaran exactly fifteen degrees Taurus.
In nice round numbers the sacred tree was probably assumed to be located three degrees
east of Sgr A*, the latter of which marked two degrees Sagittarius: Regulus 5 Leo & Thuban
12 Leo, Aldebaran 15 Taurus, Alcyone 5 Taurus, Sirius 19 Gemini, Spica 29 Virgo & Arcturus
29 Virgo, Antares 15 Scorpio, and so on, the emphasis being on the planets, the Gods in our
solar system not merely distant stellar archetypes.
The stars were used for establishing the positions of the terrestrial house cusps and planets
therein, these being more effective than arbitrary signs on the caelestial firmament. Zeus rules
in the heaven. Sagittarius is the universal sign of expansiveness, but the actual force of Jupiter
is made BY Jupiter! Once you understand this, you’ll understand it all.
#10 THE WORLD
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Trump: THE WORLD
Glyph: Horned Goat
Quality: Discipline
Ensign: Capricorn
Bearing: 270*-300* (south above)
Number: 10
Tone: A
Color: Indigo
Ruler: Saturn-superior
Roman: December/December
Babylon: Tebetu/Tebet
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The tarot card of The World is signified by the caelestial sign of Capricorn, the chromatic
ensign of Saturn-superior, the benefic force of Saturn closing the distance by radial velocity —
beneficial for souls incarnating from the Saturn souljourn. Chromatic color is Indigo & chromatic tone is A.
The Caper, he-goat, symbolized by the “inverted” pentagram, the benefic aspect of the
Scythe (see Lesson #VII Judgment) universal archetype of discipline, devotion, introspection,
reflection, contemplation, the physical realm of existence which was created benefic and malefic, evening and morning.
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Capricorn is the benefic aspect of Kronus i.e. father time whose somewhat eccentric
(0.05415 J2000) orbit encompasses Jupiter, the asteroid belt and Mars, Earth and Moon, Venus, Mercury, & Sun — the most effective planets in astrological horoscopes…albeit the outer
planets are verily effective concerning our souljourns there and the aspects these make upon
souls-incarnate. These forces are active in real-time.
It’s our individual and collective experiences there which bring the aspects to bear upon
our incarnate-experience in the physical realm; bringing to fruition, as completion of something, the worldly consequence of time; bringing about abrupt, unexpected, unanticipated,
catastrophic changes in- to our worldly experience. Giving cause for reflection, as this maxim
“you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
#11 TEMPERANCE
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Trump: TEMPERANCE
Glyph: Water Bearer
Quality: Inspiration
Ensign: Aquarius
Bearing: 300*-330* (south east)
Number: 11
Tone: A#/Bb
Color: Indigo-Violet
Ruler: Saturn-inferior/Uranus
Roman: Janvarivs/January
Babylon: Shabatu/Shebat
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The tarot card of Temperance is signified by the caelestial sign of Aquarius, the chromatic
ensign of Uranus-superior & Saturn-inferior, i.e. the benefic force of Uranus & malefic forces
of Saturn. The chromatic color of Aquarius is Indigo- Violet, and the chromatic tone is Bb/A#.
The greater forces of Uranus encompass the naked-eye visible planets — although Uranus can
just barely be seen with the naked eye under the most ideal seeing conditions and knowing
just where to look (such conditions predate modern electric “light pollution”).
As a result Uranus was relegated on par with the caelestial firmament; a known planet but
one which was too far away to see with the unaided eye on a consistent ergo corroborative
basis. For all intents and purposes, Ouranos is the Earth’s caelestial firmament whereas the
planet Uranus and thus its position on the caelestial sphere for which it is named was known
only to erudite ancient astronomers or psychic adepts.
The benefic forces of Ouranos, i.e. Earth’s sidereal heaven, & the benefic forces of the
planet Uranus (see Lesson #VIII The Star) combine to accentuate the universal archetypes of
the twelve planetary signs—the stars—approaching infinity; drawing soul outward toward
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realms of extreme consciousness, encompassing time, the father of time exceeding father-time
as it was from Earth’s beginnings: when Gaea advent Ouranos her heavenly firmament, this
“cosmic marriage” of our Earth- centered universe-apparent because it appeared that Ouranos
as the starry night wrapped his arms completely around Gaea, and by which their progeny
Kronos, primeval God of time, is revealed to the Earth. Through soul’s experiences there, we
acquire temperance, as souls being tempered by those forces of inspiration, the forces of
again-ness as a new beginning.
Here the inferior aspect of the Scythe takes hold, limiting extreme tendencies, restricting
motion towards the infinite, constraining soul’s desire to escape the bonds of the world, even
as Aquarius is inextricably joined with Capricorn. See?
#12 THE HANGED MAN
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Trump: HANGED MAN
Glyph: Fishes
Quality: Mysticism
Ensign: Pisces
Bearing: 330*-360* (east below)
Number: 12
Tone: B
Color: Violet
Ruler: Jupiter-inferior/Neptune
Roman: Febrvarivs/February
Babylon: Addaru/Adar*
*AddaruII/V’Adar
(leapyear)
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The tarot card of the Hanged Man is signified by the caelestial sign of Pisces, which is the
chromatic en- sign of Neptune-superior & Jupiter-inferior, benefic force of Neptune & the
malefic force of Jupiter. The chromatic color of Pisces is Violet & chromatic tone is B. The
greater forces of Neptune encompass all of the naked-eye visible planets including faint Uranus, at times with distant Pluton crossing Neptune’s path.
The universal mystical archetype, man reaching up to the Gods, reaching up to his brother
Pluton-Hades at the center of the Earth thus the center of Mnemosyne, mother of the music of
the spheres. Jupiter-inferior, the receding aspect of Zeus in separation from souls- incarnate
therefrom. The cumulative universal aspect of experience to the sphere of wisdom (see Lesson
#9 The Hermit) is the taming of our Mercurial intellect through the mysterious aspects
wrought by souljourns in Neptune — malefic aspect for souls incarnated from Jupiter. Vast
realm of waters just above terra firma, the reign of Neptune, closing the distance to heaven by
the elements…soul is prepared to meet the Devil.
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Court Cards
NOW THAT YOU’ve been introduced to the twenty-two universal trump cards of the major arcana, in the sophisticated language of astronomy and astrology, music and mythology, you’ll
be happy to know that the minor arcana is, for all intents and purposes, perfectly synonymous
with playing cards—save for the four additional “page” cards plus the obvious dissimilarity in
how tarot cards or playing cards are commonly used. This should make it easier for you to
recognize and remember the fifty-six cards of the minor arcana, by associating them with the
more familiar cards of hoyle — and no wonder since playing cards are known to be rooted in
the minor arcana, thus associations are perfectly justified.
You’ll surely recognize the first twelve cards of the minor arcana as the face cards: King,
Queen & Jack each of the four suits Clubs, Hearts, Spades and Diamonds. That’s the easy part.
The hard part is learning what these “face” cards mean in tarot, since they correspond with
astrological houses of ones horoscope, meaning that predominantly ruling planets revealed in
a tarot spread point to which houses are the most active, and which planets are the most effective or influential for the reading.
This aspect of the tarot pertains to daily living or the more temporal influences of the planets to the Earth and to our body, the corporeal energies of the planets in the houses, activating
channels or pathways in the horoscope. If it sounds to you like this is difficult to learn, you’re
right. It depends on your mathematical and musical aptitude as much as anything else. And if
you’re intuitive, that helps too, but intuition alone is not nearly as certain as the synergy of
mind, heart and soul. Some come by this naturally, while others have to work at it a bit. If I
could give but one word of advice over all others, learn pattern recognition.
Learn to recognize the limits of uncertainty. The order can not help but to emerge out of
the chaos. It’s like “finding” familiar images in the clouds. Our collective unconscious “helps”
us to see this empirically like a biofeedback mechanism of sorts. Some call it anthropomorphism, but basically it’s just you and it—and everything that that entails. How else can I explain this? It just comes to you with practice. You look at the cards and see what they reveal.
You can listen to the cards and hear their key signature “singing” in a dominant voice.
Granted, that probably sounds crazy to the novice, but believe me with practice you’ll see the
light.
As with the major arcana, all of the cards in the minor arcana include a brief summary of
important features or aspects thereof. Essentially, you can look at each card in its layout position and read the description printed thereon and get a picture of the reading without much
extra effort. All you need to remember really, is that the major arcana denotes heavenly as-
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pects of the psyche, while the minor arcana denotes more immediate and temporary portents
having a more direct effect on your life.
Rather than devote so much of this chapter to the descriptions, explanations and divinatory meaning of each face card all by itself, it’s more useful to learn how the planets interact
with these face cards, since these tell the planets in the houses of the horoscope. Meanwhile,
I’ve listed the face cards below for reference since their stand-alone meanings are, for the most
part, self-explanatory, just as all the other cards in the deck are. What also counts more is
their positions in the layout, as we’ll cover in the next chapter on “pip” cards.
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Court: King of Wands
Quality: Cardinal Self
Force: Strong Nuclear
Element: Fire
Suit: Clubs
House: First
Tone: C
Color: Red
Sign: Ego (aries)
Ruler: Mars-inferior
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Court: Queen of Pentacles
Quality: Fixed World
Force: Gravitation
Element: Earth
Suit: Diamonds
House: Second
Tone: C#/Db
Color: Red-Orange
Sign: Riches (taurus)
Ruler: Venus-inferior
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Court: Knight of Swords
Quality: Mutable Consciousness
Force: Electromagnetic
Element: Air
Suit: Spades
House: Third
Tone: D
Color: Orange
Sign: Brothers (gemini)
Ruler: Mercury-inferior
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Court: King of Cups
Quality: Cardinal Unconscious
Force: Weak Nuclear
Element: Water
Suit: Hearts
House: Fourth
Tone: D#/Eb
Color: Orange-Yellow
Sign: Parents (cancer)
Ruler: The Moon
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Court: Queen of Wands
Quality: Fixed Self
Force: Strong Nuclear
Element: Fire
Suit: Clubs
House: Fifth
Tone: E
Color: Yellow
Sign: Sons (leo)
Ruler: The Sun
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Court: Knight of Pentacles
Quality: Mutable World
Force: Gravitation
Element: Earth
Suit: Diamonds
House: Sixth
Tone: F
Color: Green
Sign: Servants (virgo)
Ruler: Mercury-superior
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Court: King of Swords
Quality: Cardinal Consciousness
Force: Electromagnetic
Element: Air
Suit: Spades
House: Seventh
Tone: F#/Gb
Color: Green-Blue
Sign: Marriage (libra)
Ruler: Venus-superior
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Court: Queen of Cups
Quality: Fixed Unconscious
Force: Weak Nuclear
Element: Water
Suit: Hearts
House: Eighth
Tone: G
Color: Blue
Sign: Death (scorpio)
Ruler: Mars-superior/Pluto
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Court: Knight of Wands
Quality: Mutable Self
Force: Strong Nuclear
Element: Fire
Suit: Clubs
House: Ninth
Tone: G#/Ab
Color: Blue-Indigo
Sign: Spirit (sagittarius)
Ruler: Jupiter-superior
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Court: King of Pentacles
Quality: Cardinal World
Force: Gravitation
Element: Earth
Suit: Diamonds
House: Tenth
Tone: A
Color: Indigo
Sign: Society (capricorn)
Ruler: Saturn-superior
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Court: Queen of Swords
Quality: Fixed Consciousness
Force: Electromagnetic
Element: Air
Suit: Spades
House: Eleventh
Tone: A#/Bb
Color: Indigo-Violet
Sign: Friends (aquarius)
Ruler: Saturn-inferior/Uranus
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Court:
Quality:
Force:
Element:
Suit:
House:
Tone:
Color:
Sign:
Ruler:
Knight of Cups
Mutable Unconscious
Weak Nuclear
Water
Hearts
Twelfth
B
Violet
Debts (pisces)
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Chapter 6
Pip Cards
LISTED AT THE END of this chapter are the forty pip cards for the minor arcana. These cards are
generally self-explanatory as stand-alone cards, but for this chapter we’ll concentrate on those
divinatory meanings implied by the conjunctions of sidereal planetary positions with cards
that are drawn from the center pile, as described in chapter two. Anywhere cards of the major
arcana appear, these denote the conjunction of planets or caelestial ensigns as the case may be,
while minor arcana cards denote the houses or planets in the houses mainly determined by
the position of the card or else the sidereal number thereof.
For example, Mercury the “Magician” is sidereal number II. Let’s say you were to draw the
II of Pentacles and place it in the third position of the “tree of life” as shown in chapter 2,
which is the root position of Mercury. This indicates a significant ruling Mercury in the sixth
house of the horoscope, which house is represented by the Knight of Pentacles a.k.a. Jack of
Diamonds. As shown in the previous chapter, the Knight of Pentacles card indicates the mutable quality of the element Earth, the color Green, and the key of F, in Mercury’s theoretical
Locrian modality as indicated on the trump card of the “Magician”. If you jump ahead to
chapter 9, you’ll find the “key signatures” chart where all eighty-four of the key signatures are
precisely spelled-out in musical and in corresponding astronomical terms. If you look under
the sign of Virgo (Priestess), you’ll see the “6th House…Court of the Knight of Pentacles” with
Mercury listed under Locrian:
Virgo - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Pentacles
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
If you were to sit down at a piano and actually play these notes you’d be playing in the key
of “F-Locrian”. Notice the musical notations shown with 5 flatted notes in reference to descending steps, while these would normally be written as sharps (F,F#,G#,A#,B,C#,D#) for
ascending steps. Same exact notes, just using different notation.
Note also how the Moon, Venus & Jupiter benefit by Mercury’s Locrian modality ruling in
the 6th house, since each of the seven unique modes are composed of the seven planets, Moon
thru Saturn, with only their order shifting according to the primary ruling planet, as in this
case, Mercury, as each planet is the first or tonic keynote in its diatonic modal signature. The
“Solar/Lunar” keyboard charts in chapter two make these a lot easier to understand—seeing
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that Pluton is the center of human hearing, the center of tonality, the center of pitch on the
middle C. As concert pitch this is commonly referenced to the A over middle C, given at 440
or 442 cycles per second. Students of sacred geometry have compared a few slightly different
tunings achieving remarkable results. J.S. Bach considered C# above middle C as our center
pitch, while others find detuning their instruments slightly gives a deeper sound to the music.
The center is relative to hearing, and human hearing is centered on about middle C, give or
take a few cents sharp or flat of pitch.
More importantly, is the matter of steps & half- steps, white keys and black keys, the principle of keyboard design forever centered on middle C, finding half-steps from E to F, and
from B to C, all on white keys. Notice the pentatonic scales on all black keys, all of which is
based on the mathematical principles of music & all of which is centered on the middle C. So
you see, middle C is verily the center, and so Pluton is verily the center of the Stars and center
of the Tarot, the center of the human ear, the center of Gaea.
Next, let’s say you draw a VI of Cups and place it in the tree of life position of the Moon.
VI is the sidereal number of Jupiter, and the Moon rules over the court of King of Cups.
Therefore Jupiter is exalted in the fourth house, that of Parents. As one more example, you
draw the VIII of Swords, and place it in the position of Mars. As you’ll discover Mars doesn’t
rule any of the houses listed on the VIII of Swords card, which are the houses of Marriage,
Friends or Brothers, seventh, eleventh and third houses respectively. You’ll have to look at the
rest of the tree for clues as to which house Uranus is conjunct Mars in. If Venus is the dominant planet, then it is likely that Mars is fallen in the seventh house, since Venus rules over the
seventh house. While a strong Mercury would more likely find Mars in the third house, but if
no planet appears to be dominating the chart, then Uranus might rule in the eleventh house
over Mars therein. It’s easy once you get the hang of it. It is very similar to adjudicating an
astrological horoscope, that is “reading” the horoscope for the most telling scenario, as determined by the planet hierarchy. The strongest planets in a chart are those that are ruling or
fallen, benefic or malefic as the case may be. Determine these and you’ll get the overview of
the houses and planetary rulerships in no time. It’ll start coming together for you.
If you draw the King of Pentacles, and place it in the position of Pluto, this would mean
Pluto is in the tenth house, in the service of Saturn, in the service of Society. See how easy that
is? Also, if you were to draw the Queen of Cups and place it in the position of Saturn, then
Saturn and Pluto would be in mutual reception which is good for both planets and their influence which is brought to bear in the eighth & tenth houses.
Because there are more than twice as many cards in the minor arcana than the major arcana, it’s not uncommon to draw only minor arcana cards in a ten-card reading. That’s fine,
since you have ten planets of the major arcana already placing in the tree of life’s planetary
“place-holders”, so any cards you draw must share influence with all ten planets resulting in a
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complete reading every time. It’s like having the Eye of the Sky at your fingertips! Not bad for
home-made tarot cards. It’s up to you to take advantage of them.
Divinatory meanings of cards are very dependent on the precognitive aptitude of the card
reader. As you get to know the planets and their traits, you may discover one day that they
speak to you just as spirits of the dead speak to the living beings who “tune in” to their psychic frequency via a certain instinct in the art of divination. The Gods & Goddesses are universal and immortal, whereas mundane events gain influence therefrom and are constrained
until our limit of patience is reached: then watch the Gods “rock and roll” by the elements! By
their domification of Earth under the heavens. Here are the forty pip cards:
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Card: Ace
Planet: Moon
Trump: The Moon
Keyword: Feeling
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: Ace
Planet: Moon
Trump: The Moon
Keyword: Feeling
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: Ace
Planet: Moon
Trump: The Moon
Keyword: Feeling
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: Ace
Planet: Moon
Trump: The Moon
Keyword: Feeling
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: II
Planet: Mercury
Trump: The Magvs
Keyword: Intellect
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: II
Planet: Mercury
Trump: The Magvs
Keyword: Intellect
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: II
Planet: Mercury
Trump: The Magvs
Keyword: Intellect
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: II
Planet: Mercury
Trump: The Magvs
Keyword: Intellect
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: III
Planet: Venus
Trump: Empress
Keyword: Beauty
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: III
Planet: Venus
Trump: Empress
Keyword: Beauty
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: III
Planet: Venus
Trump: Empress
Keyword: Beauty
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: III
Planet: Venus
Trump: Empress
Keyword: Beauty
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: IV
Planet: Sun
Trump: The Sun
Keyword: Majesty
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: IV
Planet: Sun
Trump: The Sun
Keyword: Majesty
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: IV
Planet: Sun
Trump: The Sun
Keyword: Majesty
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: IV
Planet: Sun
Trump: The Sun
Keyword: Majesty
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: V
Planet: Mars
Trump: The Tower
Keyword: Crossroads
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: V
Planet: Mars
Trump: The Tower
Keyword: Crossroads
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: V
Planet: Mars
Trump: The Tower
Keyword: Crossroads
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: V
Planet: Mars
Trump: The Tower
Keyword: Crossroads
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: VI
Planet: Jupiter
Trump: Emperor
Keyword: Joviality
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: VI
Planet: Jupiter
Trump: Emperor
Keyword: Joviality
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: VI
Planet: Jupiter
Trump: Emperor
Keyword: Joviality
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: VI
Planet: Jupiter
Trump: Emperor
Keyword: Joviality
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: VII
Planet: Saturn
Trump: Judgment
Keyword: Finality
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: VII
Planet: Saturn
Trump: Judgment
Keyword: Finality
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: VII
Planet: Saturn
Trump: Judgment
Keyword: Finality
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: VII
Planet: Saturn
Trump: Judgment
Keyword: Finality
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: VIII
Planet: Uranus
Trump: The Star
Keyword: Extremes
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: VIII
Planet: Uranus
Trump: The Star
Keyword: Extremes
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: VIII
Planet: Uranus
Trump: The Star
Keyword: Extremes
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: VIII
Planet: Uranus
Trump: The Star
Keyword: Extremes
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: IX
Planet: Neptune
Trump: The Hermit
Keyword: Wisdom
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: IX
Planet: Neptune
Trump: The Hermit
Keyword: Wisdom
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card: IX
Planet: Neptune
Trump: The Hermit
Keyword: Wisdom
Suit: Swords
Hoyle: Spades
Element: Air
King: Marriage
Queen: Friends
Knight: Brothers
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Card: IX
Planet: Neptune
Trump: The Hermit
Keyword: Wisdom
Suit: Cups
Hoyle: Hearts
Element: Water
King: Parents
Queen: Death
Knight: Debts
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Card: X
Planet: Pluto
Trump: The Fool
Keyword: The Earth
Suit: Wands
Hoyle: Clubs
Element: Fire
King: Ego
Queen: Sons
Knight: Spirit
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Card: X
Planet: Pluto
Trump: The Fool
Keyword: The Earth
Suit: Pentacles
Hoyle: Diamonds
Element: Earth
King: Society
Queen: Riches
Knight: Servants
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Card:
Planet:
Trump:
Keyword:
Suit:
Hoyle:
Element:
King:
Queen:
Knight:
X
Pluto
The Fool
The Earth
Swords
Spades
Air
Marriage
Friends
Brothers
Card:
Planet:
Trump:
Keyword:
Suit:
Hoyle:
Element:
King:
Queen:
Knight:
X
Pluto
The Fool
The Earth
Cups
Hearts
Water
Parents
Death
Debts
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Chapter 7
Solar System
CONSIDER THE NICHE filled by each planet in their sidereal orbits around the Sun and the Sun
& Moon around the Earth. Relatively speaking the planets are orbiting Earth epicyclically
much as the Moon orbits the Sun in similar fashion the obvious dif- ference being that the Sun
is by far the dominant gravitational focus for the entire “solar system”. The pertinence here, is
that man exists solely on the Earth, and has never stood on the Sun nor any other planet in
the solar system apart from Earth: at least not for many long millennia they haven’t. We deduce that the planets orbit the Sun based on what we see from Earth and from data sent back
to Earth from un-manned vehicles launched into space. His instruments are in space, but man
is on Earth.
It’s amazing how such easy observational concepts escape any comprehension or acknowledgment by the orthodox astronomers, who instead create a “straw-man” argument of geocentricity vs heliocentricity, as if ancient astronomers around the planet never understood this
distinction! That’s merely absurd, as the explicit sidereal numbering of the planets and sidereal
fifths-numbering for the days of the week by ancient astronomers proves that they knew fullwell the difference between heliocentric and geocentric planetary motion. Ancients had
amassed libraries of knowledge beyond such basic concepts as these, most of which are lost to
antiquity and what little remains does so in exiguous fragments.
Most if not all of what’s written in this book is my feeble attempt to resurrect some of these
lost principles of astronomy & astrology — as I am able. By applying these ancient principles
to the tarot, the pages thereof are “resuscitated” back to life, since the basis for all this is as old
as man him- self, even hundreds of millions of sidereal years since the evening and morning of
his/her creating.
Which brings us to the main point of this chapter, to draw your attention to the togetherness of the planets, the Gods who congregate in the pantheion.
In their diatonic sidereal modalities the planets were formed and have continued to evolve
for long aeons of time in space, providing the environment and sustenance for all forms of life
herein. This is the foundation of the world by the elements of creation, and is the enabling
force of the psyche, the breath of life and its astrological processes upon which the tarot is dependent for its meaning and interpretation. That is why we begin with the seven planets and
their seven diatonic modalities, the seven unique styles of heavenly consciousness each of
whose uniqueness depends on all the other planets for its very existence. Each planet makes a
unique modal signature because it does so among its peers, meaning all eighty-four key signatures have an equally vital role in the symphony of the planets or what we call the “music of
the spheres” since it combines the sidereal modes with synodic ensigns. You see it’s heliocen-
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tric AND geocentric, diatonic AND chromatic, white keys AND black keys, Solaires AND
Lunaires. As the cornerstone of life itself, the cycles of life and death, the radiant “wheel” of
the eighty-four, these Solars & Lunars are the essential ingredients for mastering tarot.
Take note how the planets works together, and the cards of the tarot layout work together
to reveal their portent. Read every tarot spread in context, each card in position one by one
then the gestalt which they mutually inspire, our Jovian “overview”. This brings a sense of
completion to your reading of the cards, a conclusion to every tarot session where the spirit of
divination prevails over mind. Not supplanting thought, rather governing over it.
In the next chapter, we’ll complete the tarot pak with its last four cards or pages of the
elements.
Chapter 8
Trinity
NOW WE’VE REACHED the last four cards in tarot, the four “Pages”. The Page cards represent
the four elemental triplicities of the court cards in composite, where the creator, sustainer and
destroyer splay out from a single element, one divine trinity or elemental triad as one force,
thereby symbolized by the Page of each element.
The four elements of creation are 1) Fire, the strong nuclear force; 2) Water or weak nuclear force; 3) Air, electromagnetic force; 4) Earth, the force of gravitation. 1&2 micro, 3&4
macro. Together, the Pages quintessentially synergize the fifth element, called the kether or
aether, the spirit “fluttering” upon the face of existence.
The four primordial elements extend to no less than ten dimensions or planes of consciousness to which the planets co-formed in their orbits from the beginning. The spirit is
ever-present in all dimensions, as spirit is slightly above the creation just as will is slightly
above it.
Each of the four page cards point to its triad of tones, colors, houses, etc and their ruling
planets. Understanding the elemental trinities is tantamount to understanding Sepher
Yetzirah, as I’ve previously mentioned back in chapter 2. For example, I suggest that you play
the triad as it appears on each Page card beginning with the Page of Wands, whose tones are
C, E and G#; consider also its colors, Red, Yellow and Blue- Indigo; its fiery houses of Ego,
Sons & Spirit; its rulers Mars-receding, Sun, Jupiter-closing; refer also to chapter 5, the three
court cards King of Wands, Queen of Wands, Knight of Wands, who together form the trinity
of Page of Wands.
This is the actual basis of the divine trinity, Father, Son, Spirit; King, Queen, Knight. This
is the basis for all ancient wisdom, the triad of Life (death), Death (life), and the Resurrection
forever in the balance thereof…eternally.
We may read the Page card in a tarot layout in the same way, by considering first the element it represents, its elemental triplicity. Let’s say you draw the Page of Swords, placing it in
the position of Saturn. Therefore the eleventh house is actively ruled by Saturn-receding and
his father Uranus, in the astrological element of Air, and which is the Electromagnetic force of
Consciousness: whose King is Venus-superior. Quetzalcoatl-the-lesser is lost behind the Sun
to become the greater or immortal Quetzalcoatl, who is the force of Venus closing to the Earth
(cf major arcana trump of “Justice” chapter 4), and means Venus is ruling in the seventh
house. The Page of Swords under Saturn also points to Mercury-inferior, ruling in the third
house of Brothers. Play the triad D, F#, & A#. It’s the same interval as other Pages, but each is
in a different key a wholestep up from the previous. Try playing the second then third inversion of the same notes F#, A# and D, then A#, D and F#. The first, second and third inversions of each triad help you to recognize its triune essence, and all four Pages cover the
complete spectrum of twelve chromatic tones in Earth’s houses of her synodic zodiac-meaning
numbered by planets according to their synodic phases to the Earth.
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Below are the four Pages in the tarot pak, and are the last cards listed in this book. In the
next chapter, select copies of my astrological charts are included for your reference, and as a
learning aid for students and teachers alike.
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Court Card:
Force:
Triplicity:
Trinity:
Quality:
Element:
Suit:
Tones:
Color:
Page
Strong
Wands
1s, 5b, 9p
Self
Fire
Clubs
C, E, G#/Ab
Red, Yellow,
& Blue-Indigo
Signs: Ego, Sons, Spirit
Rulers: Mars-inferior, Sun,
& Jupiter-superior
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Court Card:
Force:
Triplicity:
Trinity:
Quality:
Element:
Suit:
Tones:
Color:
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Gravity
Pentacles
2s, 6p, 10b
World
Earth
Diamonds
C#/Db, F, A
Red-Orange,
Green, & Indigo
Signs: Riches, Servants,
& Society
Rulers: Venus-inferior,
Mercury-superior,
& Saturn-superior
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Court Card:
Force:
Triplicity:
Trinity:
Quality:
Element:
Suit:
Tones:
Color:
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Electromagnetic
Swords
3s, 7p, 11b
Consciousness
Air
Spades
D, F#/Gb, A#/Bb
Orange, Green-Blue
& Indigo-Violet
Signs: Brothers, Marriage,
& Friends
Rulers: Mercury-inferior,
Venus-superior,
Saturn-inferior,
& Uranus
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Court Card:
Force:
Triplicity:
Trinity:
Quality:
Element:
Suit:
Tones:
Color:
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Weak
Cups
4s, 8p, 12b
Unconscious
Water
Hearts
D#/Eb, G, B
Orange-Yellow,
Blue, & Violet
Signs: Parents,
Death, & Debts
Rulers: Moon, Mars-superior,
Jupiter-inferior,
& Neptune
Chapter 9
Music of the Spheres
KEY SIGNATURES OF EVENING
LIBRA
JUSTICE
------7th House
Court of the King of Swords
Libra
MOON (Moon)
STAR (Uranus)
4
5
6
B
Db
D
Pis Tau Gem
Sun Mar Jup
F
F
- Aeolian
- Ace of Swords
- Eight of Swords
7
1
2
3
E
Gb
Ab
A
Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
F
Libra - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Swords
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Swords
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
Libra - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Swords
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Swords
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Libra
SUN (Sun) 4
5
6
B
Db
Eb
Pis Tau Can
Sat Moo Mer
e
- Dorian
Four of Swords
7
1
2
3
E
Gb
Ab
A
Leo Lib Sag Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup
d
d
Libra - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Swords
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
F
R
Libra - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Swords
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
Libra - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Swords
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
e
e
d
e
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SCORPIO
DEATH
------8th House
Court of the Queen of Cups
Scorpio - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Cups
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
e
d
Scorpio - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Cups
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
Scorpio - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Cups
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
Scorpio - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
d
d
2
A
Cap
Mar
e
Scorpio - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
R
R
R
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Scorpio - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
F
R
Scorpio - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Cups
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
F
F
F
F
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SAGITTARIUS
FORTUNE
------9th House
Court of the Knight of Wands
Sagittarius - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Wands
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Wands
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
e
e
d
e
Sagittarius - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Wands
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Wands
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
F
F
F
Sagittarius - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Wands
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Wands
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
Sagittarius - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Wands
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Sagittarius - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Wands
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
e
d
d
Sagittarius - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Wands
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
R
R
R
Sagittarius - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Wands
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
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CAPRICORN
WORLD
------10th House
Court of the King of Pentacles
Capricorn - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Pentacles
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
F
F
F
F
Capricorn - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Pentacles
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
e
d
Capricorn - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Pentacles
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
F
F
F
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Capricorn - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
Capricorn - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
d
d
e
Capricorn - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
e
d
d
Capricorn - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Pentacles
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
F
R
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AQUARIUS
TEMPERANCE
-------11th House
Court of the Queen of Swords
Aquarius - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Swords
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
Aquarius - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Swords
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
e
e
d
e
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Aquarius - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Swords
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
e
d
Aquarius - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
Aquarius - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Aquarius - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
d
d
e
Aquarius - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Swords
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
R
R
R
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PISCES
HANGED MAN
-------12th House
Court of the Knight of Cups
Pisces - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Cups
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Cups
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
F
R
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Pisces - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Cups
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Cups
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
F
F
F
F
Pisces - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Cups
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Cups
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
e
e
d
e
Pisces - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Cups
1
2
3
4
5
6
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
F
F
F
F
7
A
Cap
Ven
Pisces - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Cups
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
Pisces - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Cups
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Pisces - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Cups
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
e
d
d
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KEY SIGNATURES OF MORNING
ARIES
DEVIL
------1st House
Court of the King of Wands
Aries - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Wands
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
R
R
R
Aries - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Wands
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
Aries - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Wands
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
F
F
F
F
Aries - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
e
d
Aries - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
Aries - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Wands
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
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Aries - Mixolydian
Taurus - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Wands
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Pentacles
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
d
d
d
e
R
R
R
R
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TAURUS
HIEROPHANT
GEMINI
-------LOVERS
2nd House
------Court of the Queen of Pentacles
3rd House
Court of the Knight of Swords
Taurus - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Pentacles
Gemini - Aeolian
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Pentacles
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Swords
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Swords
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
A
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag Cap
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
e
d
d
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
d
d
d
e
Taurus - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Pentacles
Gemini - Locrian
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Pentacles
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Swords
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Swords
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
R
F
R
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
Taurus - Ionian
R
R
R
R
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Pentacles
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Pentacles
Gemini - Ionian
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Swords
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Swords
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
R
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
Taurus - Dorian
R
F
R
SUN (Sun) - Four of Pentacles
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Gemini - Dorian
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
SUN (Sun) - Four of Swords
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
e
e
d
e
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
Taurus - Phrygian
F
F
F
F
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Pentacles
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
Gemini - Phrygian
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
A
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Swords
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag Cap
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
F
F
F
F
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
Taurus - Lydian
e
e
d
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Pentacles
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
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Gemini - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Swords
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
F
F
F
Gemini - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Swords
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
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CANCER
CHARIOT
------4th House
Court of the King of Cups
Cancer - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Cups
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Cancer - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine
6
7
1
2
3
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
e
d
of Cups
of Cups
4
5
Ab
A
Sag Cap
Mar Jup
d
Cancer - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Cups
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
R
R
R
Cancer - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
R
4
Ab
Sag
Sat
Cancer - Phrygian
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
e
e
d
e
Cancer - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
e
d
Cancer - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Cups
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
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LEO
STRENGTH
------5th House
Court of the Queen of Wands
Leo - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Wands
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Wands
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
B
C
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
F
Leo - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Wands
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Wands
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
d
d
e
Leo - Ionian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Wands
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Wands
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
A
Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag Cap
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
e
d
d
Leo - Dorian
SUN (Sun) - Four of Wands
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
B
Db
D
E
Gb
G
A
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sco Cap
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
R
F
R
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Virgo - Ionian
Phrygian
EMPRESS (Venus) - Three of Pentacles
- Five of Wands
FOOL (Pluton) - Ten of Pentacles
1
2
3
4
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
E
F
G
A
Bb
C
D
E
F
G
A
Leo Vir Sco Cap
Aqu Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mar Jup Sat Moo
Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar
F
F
d
d
d
e
Leo - Lydian
Virgo - Dorian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Wands
SUN (Sun) - Four of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
B
Db
Eb
E
Gb
Ab
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Leo Lib Sag
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Sag
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup
e
e
d
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R
R
R
R
Leo - Mixolydian
Virgo - Phrygian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Wands
TOWER (Mars) - Five of Pentacles
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
B
Db
D
E
Gb
Ab
A
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Pis Tau Gem Leo Lib Sag Cap
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
Moo Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat
F
F
F
F
R
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Leo TOWER (Mars)
5
6
7
B
C
D
Pis Ari Gem
Mer Ven Sun
F
F
VIRGO
PRIESTESS
------6th House
Court of the Knight of Pentacles
Virgo - Aeolian
MOON (Moon) - Ace of Pentacles
STAR (Uranus) - Eight of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
C
Db
Eb
F
G
Ab
Aqu Ari Tau Can Vir Sco Sag
Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven
F
R
F
Virgo - Locrian
MAGICIAN (Mercury) - Two of Pentacles
HERMIT (Neptune) - Nine of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
B
Db
Eb
F
Gb
Ab
Aqu Pis Tau Can Vir Lib Sag
Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer Ven Sun
R
R
R
R
Virgo - Lydian
EMPEROR (Jupiter) - Six of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
Pis Ari Gem Leo Vir Sco Cap
Mer Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo
F
F
F
F
Virgo - Mixolydian
JUDGMENT (Saturn) - Seven of Pentacles
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
Bb
C
D
Eb
F
G
A
Aqu Ari Gem Can Vir Sco Cap
Ven Sun Mar Jup Sat Moo Mer
e
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d
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Music of the Spheres
These next six charts complete the section of SPR
YTzYRH, Height, Depth, East, West, South, & North:
IRIS LOOKING ABOVE
(SPR YTzYRH “I H W”)
EMP
JUD
JUD
EMP
TOW
EMP <=Trump
VI
VII
VII
VI
V
III <=Heaven
Jup
Sat
Sat
Jup
Mar
Ven <=Ruler
Ada
She
Teb
Kis
Che
Tis <=Hebrew
Feb
Jan
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep <=Roman
Hea
Spa
Dia
Clu
Hea
Spa <=Suit
Wat
Air
Ear
Fir
Wat
Air <=Element
Mut
Fix
Car
Mut
Fix
Car <=Quality
Cup
Swo
Pen
Wan
Cup
Swo <=Arcana
Kni
Que
Kin
Kni
Que
Kin <=Court
HAN
TEM
WOR
FOR
DEA
JUS <=Trump
Pis
Aqu
Cap
Sag
Sco
Lib <=Sign
Inf
Inf
Sup
Sup
Sup
Sup <=Phase
Vio
IVi
Ind
BIn
Blu
GBl <=Color
B
Bb
A
Ab
G
Gb <=Tone
12
11
10
9
8
7
<=Order
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2
3
4
5
6
<=Order
C
Db
D
Eb
E
F
<=Tone
Red
ROr
Ora
OYe
Yel
Gre <=Color
Inf
Inf
Inf
Inf
Sup
Sup <=Phase
Ari
Tau
Gem
Can
Leo
Vir <=Sign
DEV
HIE
LOV
CHA
STR
PRI <=Trump
Kin
Que
Kni
Kin
Que
Kni <=Court
Wan
Pen
Swo
Cup
Wan
Pen <=Arcana
Car
Fix
Mut
Car
Fix
Mut <=Quality
Fir
Ear
Air
Wat
Fir
Ear <=Element
Clu
Dia
Spa
Hea
Clu
Dia <=Suit
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug <=Roman
Nis
Iyy
Siv
Tam
Ab_
Elu <=Hebrew
Mar
Ven
Mer
Moo
Sun
Mer <=Ruler
V
III
II
I
IV
II <=Heaven
TOW
EMP
MAG
MOO
SUN
MAG <=Trump
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(SPR YTzYRH “I W H”)
TOW
EMP
MAG
MOO
SUN
MAG <=Trump
V
III
II
I
IV
II <=Heaven
Mar
Ven
Mer
Moo
Sun
Mer <=Ruler
Nis
Iyy
Siv
Tam
Ab_
Elu <=Hebrew
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug <=Roman
Clu
Dia
Spa
Hea
Clu
Dia <=Suit
Fir
Ear
Air
Wat
Fir
Ear <=Element
Car
Fix
Mut
Car
Fix
Mut <=Quality
Wan
Pen
Swo
Cup
Wan
Pen <=Arcana
Kin
Que
Kni
Kin
Que
Kni <=Court
DEV
HIE
LOV
CHA
STR
PRI <=Trump
Ari
Tau
Gem
Can
Leo
Vir <=Sign
Inf
Inf
Inf
Inf
Sup
Sup <=Phase
Red
ROr
Ora
OYe
Yel
Gre <=Color
C
Db
D
Eb
E
F
<=Tone
1
2
3
4
5
6
<=Order
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11
10
9
8
7
<=Order
B
Bb
A
Ab
G
Gb <=Tone
Vio
IVi
Ind
BIn
Blu
GBl <=Color
Inf
Inf
Sup
Sup
Sup
Sup <=Phase
Pis
Aqu
Cap
Sag
Sco
Lib <=Sign
HAN
TEM
WOR
FOR
DEA
JUS <=Trump
Kni
Que
Kin
Kni
Que
Kin <=Court
Cup
Swo
Pen
Wan
Cup
Swo <=Arcana
Mut
Fix
Car
Mut
Fix
Car <=Quality
Wat
Air
Ear
Fir
Wat
Air <=Element
Hea
Spa
Dia
Clu
Hea
Spa <=Suit
Feb
Jan
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep <=Roman
Ada
She
Teb
Kis
Che
Tis <=Hebrew
Jup
Sat
Sat
Jup
Mar
Ven <=Ruler
VI
VII
VII
VI
V
III <=Heaven
EMP
JUD
JUD
EMP
TOW
EMP <=Trump
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IRIS LOOKING EAST
(SPR YTzYRH “H I W”)
/-Sup.-->|
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6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 10
9
8 <=Order
Gb F
E
Eb D
Db C
B
Bb A
Ab G <=Tone
GBl Gre Yel OYe Ora ROr Red Vio IVi Ind BIn Blu <=Color
Lib Vir Leo Can Gem Tau Ari Pis Aqu Cap Sag Sco <=Sign
JUS PRI STR CHA LOV HIE DEV HAN TEM WOR FOR DEA <=Trump
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------\
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 10
9
8 <=House
H
Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que <=Court
o
Swo Pen Wan Cup Swo Pen Wan Cup Swo Pen Wan Cup <=Arcana
u
Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix <=Quality s
Air Ear Fir Wat Air Ear Fir Wat Air Ear Fir Wat <=Element e
Spa Dia Clu Hea Spa Dia Clu Hea Spa Dia Clu Hea <=Suit
s
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------/
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 10
9
8 <=Order
Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct <=Roman
Tis Elu Ab_ Tam Siv Iyy Nis Ada She Teb Kis Che <=Hebrew
Ven Mer Sun Moo Mer Ven Mar Jup Sat Sat Jup Mar <=Ruler
III II IV
I
II III V
VI VII VII VI
V <=Heaven
EMP MAG SUN MOO MAG EMP TOW EMP JUD JUD EMP TOW <=Trump
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IRIS LOOKING WEST
(SPR YTzYRH “H W I”)
/-Inf.-->|
|<-----Superior---->|
|<-Inf.--/
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9 10 11 12
1 <=Order
Db D
Eb E
F
Gb G
Ab A
Bb B
C <=Tone
ROr Ora OYe Yel Gre GBl Blu BIn Ind IVi Vio Red <=Color
Tau Gem Can Leo Vir Lib Sco Sag Cap Aqu Pis Ari <=Sign
HIE LOV CHA STR PRI JUS DEA FOR WOR TEM HAN DEV <=Trump
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------\
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12
1 <=House
H
Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin <=Court
o
Pen Swo Cup Wan Pen Swo Cup Wan Pen Swo Cup Wan <=Arcana
u
Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car <=Quality s
Ear Air Wat Fir Ear Air Wat Fir Ear Air Wat Fir <=Element e
Dia Spa Hea Clu Dia Spa Hea Clu Dia Spa Hea Clu <=Suit
s
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------/
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12
1 <=Order
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar <=Roman
Iyy Siv Tam Ab_ Elu Tis Che Kis Teb She Ada Nis <=Hebrew
Ven Mer Moo Sun Mer Ven Mar Jup Sat Sat Jup Mar <=Ruler
III II
I
IV II III V
VI VII VII VI V <=Heaven
EMP MAG MOO SUN MAG EMP TOW EMP JUD JUD EMP TOW <=Trump
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IRIS LOOKING SOUTH
(SPR YTzYRH “W I H”)
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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 <=Order
A
Ab G
Gb F
E
Eb D
Db C
B Bb <=Tone
Ind BIn Blu GBl Gre Yel OYe Ora ROr Red Vio IVi <=Color
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Cap Sag Sco Lib Vir Leo Can Gem Tau Ari Pis Aqu <=Sign
WOR FOR DEA JUS PRI STR CHA LOV HIE DEV HAN TEM <=Trump
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------\
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 <=House
H
Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que Kin Kni Que <=Court
o
Pen Wan Cup Swo Pen Wan Cup Swo Pen Wan Cup Swo <=Arcana
u
Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix Car Mut Fix <=Quality s
Ear Fir Wat Air Ear Fir Wat Air Ear Fir Wat Air <=Element e
Dia Clu Hea Spa Dia Clu Hea Spa Dia Clu Hea Spa <=Suit
s
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------/
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1 12 11 <=Order
Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan <=Roman
Teb Kis Che Tis Elu Ab_ Tam Siv Iyy Nis Ada She <=Hebrew
Sat Jup Mar Ven Mer Sun Moo Mer Ven Mar Jup Sat <=Ruler
VII VI V III II IV
I II III V
VI VII <=Heaven
JUD EMP TOW EMP MAG SUN MOO MAG EMP TOW EMP JUD <=Trump
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IRIS LOOKING NORTH
(SPR YTzYRH “W H I”)
|<----Inferior----->|
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 <=Order
Bb
B
C
Db D
Eb E
F
Gb G
Ab A <=Tone
IVi Vio Red ROr Ora OYe Yel Gre GBl Blu BIn Ind <=Color
| /Ir /Uv |
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Aqu Pis Ari Tau Gem Can Leo Vir Lib Sco Sag Cap <=Sign
TEM HAN DEV HIE LOV CHA STR PRI JUS DEA FOR WOR <=Trump
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------\
11 12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 <=House
H
Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin Que Kni Kin <=Court
o
Swo Cup Wan Pen Swo Cup Wan Pen Swo Cup Wan Pen <=Arcana
u
Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car Fix Mut Car <=Quality s
Air Wat Fir Ear Air Wat Fir Ear Air Wat Fir Ear <=Element e
Spa Hea Clu Dia Spa Hea Clu Dia Spa Hea Clu Dia <=Suit
s
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-------------/
11 12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 <=Order
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec <=Roman
She Ada Nis Iyy Siv Tam Ab_ Elu Tis Che Kis Teb <=Hebrew
Sat Jup Mar Ven Mer Moo Sun Mer Ven Mar Jup Sat <=Ruler
VII VI V III II I
IV II III V
VI VII <=Heaven
JUD EMP TOW EMP MAG MOO SUN MAG EMP TOW EMP JUD <=Trump
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Aqu Pis Ari Tau Gem Can Leo Vir Lib Sco Sag Cap
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2
3
4
11 12
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10
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B
C
Db D
Eb E
F
Gb G
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IVi Vio Red ROr Ora OYe Yel Gre GBl Blu BIn Ind
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SYNODIC (Lunars)
*NOTE:Ura rules Earth’s sidereal year =~ 1.00004
Nep rules Earth’s tropical year =~ 1.00000
Plu rules Earth’s own geocenter =~ 0.00000,
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<=planetary rulers
<=zodiacal ensigns
<=evening (liturg)
<=morning (eccles)
<=chromatic tones
<=chromatic colors
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PLANET
S# Pla
*10 Plu
*9 Nep
*8 Ura
7 Sat
6 Jup
5 Mar
4 Sun
3 Ven
2 Mer
1 Moo
ORBITS/SACRE GLOMES
Synod Sider./TropY
366.7 90800. 247.9
367.5 60190. 164.8
369.7 30685. 84.02
378.1 10760. 29.45
399.9 4332.2 11.86
780.0 686.98 1.881
----- 365.26 1.000
583.9 224.70 0.615
115.9 87.969 0.241
29.53 27.322 0.075
Cf. the above with this chart dated cir. 440 AD, which
agrees with Greco-Roman authorities dated centuries BC:
*COELVM EMPIREVM HABITACVLVM DEI ET OMNIVM ELECTORVM
Heaven Name
Place
Musa
goddess
Tenth Primum Mobile Earth/Pluto
Mnemosyne
Memory
Ninth Mobile
Seasons/Neptune Thalia
Comedy
Eighth Caelest.Firma. Stars/Uranus
Urania
Astronomy
Seventh SATVRNI
Saturn
Polihymnia Hymnody
Sixth IOVIS
Jupiter
Euterpe
Melody
Fifth MARTIS
Mars
Eratho
Lyric
Fourth SOLIS
Sun
Melpomene
Tragedy
Third VENERIS
Venus
Terpsicore Dance
Second MERCVRII
Mercury
Kaliope
Epic
First LVNE
Moon
Klio
History
*NOTE: The ancient Latin motto above translates as: “Heaven in
Practice is the Habitation of the Gods And Wholly by Election”
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Music of the Spheres
HEBREW / GREEK / ROMAN
ALPHABETICAL CORRESPONDENCE TABLE
----------------------------------Heb/Gre Hebrew / Greek
/Rom /def.
1 / 1
Aleph / Alpha
/A
/oxen
2 / 2
Beth / Beta
/B
/house
3 / 3
Gimel / Gamma
/G
/camel
4 / 4 Daleth / Delta
/D
/door
5 / 5
He / Epsilon /E
/window
6 /(6)
Waw / Digamma /F/V /nail
7 / 6
Zayin / Zeta
/Z
/sword
8 / 7
Heth / Eta
/HE /wall
9 / 8
Teth / Theta
/TH /snake
10 / 9
Yodh / Iota
/I
/hand
11 /10
Kaph / Kappa
/K
/fist
12 /11 Lamedh / Lambda /L
/goad
13 /12
Mem / My
/M
/water
14 /13
Nun / Ny
/N
/fish
15 /14 Samekh / Xi
/X
/prop
16 /15
Ayin / Omikron /O
/eye
17 /16
Peh / Pi
/P
/mouth
18 /-- Tzadhe / ~
/TZ /fishhook
19 /-Qoph / Koph
/Q
/ear
20 /17
Resh / Rho
/R
/head
21 /18
Shin / Sigma
/S
/tooth
22 /19
Tau / Tau
/T
/cross
~ /20
~ / Ypsilon /U
/~
~ /21
~ / Phei
/PH /~
~ /22
~ / Chi
/KH /~
~ /23
~ / Psei
/PS /~
~ /24
~ / Omega
/O
/~
1 / 1
13 /12
21 /18
THE THREE MOTHERS
Aleph / Alpha
/A
Mem / Mu
/M
Shin / Sigma
/S
/oxhead
/water
/tooth
Shin/Sigma-FIRE
(suit of wands)
Sagittarius = purified 9
Leo
= balance
5
Aries
= sinful
1
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EARTH
(suit of pentacles)
Virgo
= purified
6
Capricorn = balance
10
Taurus
= sinful
2
Aleph/Alpha-AIR
(suit of swords)
Libra
= purified
Aquarius = balance
Gemini
= sinful
7
11
3
Mem/Mu-WATER
(suit of cups)
Scorpio = purified
Pisces
= balance
Cancer
= sinful
8
12
4
THE SEVEN DOUBLES
Beth / Beta
/B
Gimel / Gamma
/G
Daleth / Delta
/D
Kaph / Kappa
/K
Peh / Pi
/P
Resh / Rho
/R
Tau / Tau
/T
2
3
4
11
17
20
22
/ 2
/ 3
/ 4
/10
/16
/17
/19
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
14
15
16
18
19
THE TWELVE SIMPLES
/ 5
He / Epsilon /E
/(6)
Waw / Digamma /F/V
/ 6
Zayin / Zeta
/Z
/ 7
Heth / Eta
/HE
/ 8
Teth / Theta
/TH
/ 9
Yodh / Iota
/I
/11 Lamedh / Lambda /L
/13
Nun / Nu
/N
/14 Samekh / Xi
/X
/15
Ayin / Omikron /O
/-- Tzadhe / ~
/TZ
/-Qoph / ~
/Q
“house
“camel
“door
“fist
“mouth
“head
“cross
-
/window
/nail
/sword
/wall
/snake
/hand
/goad
/fish
/prop
/eye
/fishhook
/ear
life”
peace”
wisdom”
riches”
grace”
fertility”
power”
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THE TWELVE DIRECTIONS*
deg. direction cusp(titan) zodiac
-----------------------------------0
Eastabove aries
first
30
Northeast taurus
second
60 Northbelow gemini
third
90 Northabove cancer
fourth
120
Northwest leo
fifth
150
Westbelow virgo
sixth
180
Westabove libra
seventh
210
Southwest scorpio
eighth
240 Southbelow sagittarius ninth
270 Southabove capricorn
tenth
300
Southeast aquarius
eleventh
330
Eastbelow pisces
twelfth
*NOTE: directional houses are unadjudicated.
Houses of the horoscope are “turned” under
the ruling Olympians. However, directional
positions of the planets still matter very
much, ‘specially for planets in ascendancy
until the midheaven revealing ones sojourn
in natal charts and most active dispositor.
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1
2
3
4
4
9
13
15
16
19
21
22
THE TWELVE
/ 1
Aleph /
/ 2
Beth /
/ 3
Gimel /
/ 4 Daleth /
/ 4 Daleth /
/ 8
Teth /
/12
Mem /
/14 Samekh /
/15
Ayin /
/-Qoph /
/18
Shin /
/19
Tau /
CONSTELLATIONS*
Alpha
/A
/oxen
Beta
/B
/house
Gamma
/G
/camel
Delta
/D
/door
Delta
/D
/door
Theta
/TH /snake
My
/M
/water
Xi
/X
/prop
Omikron /O
/eye
Koph
/Q
/ear
Sigma
/S
/tooth
Tau
/T
/cross
*NOTE: the “SPR YTzYRH” based on the judicial
astrology of Ab-Ram/Abraham does not specify
which letters explicitly go with which signs
of the caelestial zodiac…only that they do.
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DIATONIC SIDEREAL MODES IN THE OCTAVE
(Orbit, Planet, Pitch, Mode, Muse, Goddess)
S# Pla Key Mod Mus God Relative Middle C
10 Plu C Ion Mne Mem <=C equal middle C
9 Nep B Loc Tha Com <=B below middle C
8 Ura A Aeo Ura Ast <=A below middle C <=bottom
---------------------------------------7 Sat G Mix Pol Hym <=G above middle C
6 Jup F Lyd Eut Mel <=F above middle C
5 Mar E Phr Era Lyr <=E above middle C
4 Sun D Dor Mel Tra <=D above middle C
---------------------------------------3 Ven C Ion Ter Dan <=C above middle C <=top
2 Mer B Loc Kal Epi <=B above middle C
1 Moo A Aeo Kli His <=A above middle C
DIATONIC SIDEREAL MODE-NOMENCLATURE
(same mode, common ascending, ancient descending)
Tonic Common
Ancient
Planet
Heaven
*C
Ionian
Lydian
Pluto
Tenth
*B
Locrian
Mixolydian
Neptune Ninth
*A
Aeolian
Hypodorian
Uranus
Eighth
G
Mixolydian Hypophrygian Saturn
Seventh
F
Lydian
Hypolydian
Jupiter Sixth
E
Phrygian
Dorian
Mars
Fifth
D
Dorian
Phrygian
Sun
Fourth
C
Ionian
Lydian
Venus
Third
B
Locrian
Mixolydian
Mercury Second
A
Aeolian
Hypodorian
Moon
First
*NOTE outer planet modes are in the lower octave.
DIATONIC SIDEREAL MODES IN WHOLE & HALF STEPS
# alpha AscendSteps Mode
*Species
7
G
W-W-H-W-W-H Mixolydian greater w/ b7
6
F
W-W-W-H-W-W Lydian
greater w/ #4
5
E
H-W-W-W-H-W Phrygian
lesser w/ b2
4
D
W-H-W-W-W-H Dorian
lesser melodic
3
C
W-W-H-W-W-W Ionian
greater natural
2
B
H-W-W-H-W-W Locrian
lesser w/ b2 b5
1
A
W-H-W-W-H-W Aeolian
lesser natural
*greater, major, perfect;
lesser, minor, imperfect.
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Ch
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
RULERSHIPS ON OUR CAELESTIAL SPHERE
(ecliptic 0 lat. Aldebaran 15Tau lon.)
Sign Glyph
Quality
Rul-phase
Aries Ram
Ambition
Mar-inf
Taurus Bull
Passion
Ven-inf
Gemini Twins
Communication Mer-inf
Cancer Crab
Imagination
Moo-inf
Leo Lion
Power
Sun-sup
Virgo Virgin
Virtue
Mer-sup
Libra Scales
Justice
Ven-sup
Scorpius Scorpion
Vitality
Mar-sup,Plu-inf
Sagittarius Archer
Fortune
Jup-sup
Capricorn Horned Goat
Discipline
Sat-sup
Aquarius Water Bearer Inspiration
Sat-inf,Ura-sup
Pisces Fishes
Mysticism
Jup-inf,Nep-sup
RULERSHIPS IN OUR TERRESTRIAL SPHERE
(meridian houses/courts of the horoscope)
Hs
Rulership Rul-phase
01 - Ego
- Mar-inf
02 - Riches
- Ven-inf
03 - Brothers - Mer-inf
04 - Parents - Moo-inf
05 - Sons
- Sun-sup
06 - Servants - Mer-sup
07 - Marriage - Ven-sup
08 - Death
- Mar-sup,Plu-inf
09 - Spirit
- Jup-sup
10 - Society - Sat-sup
11 - Friends - Sat-inf,Ura-sup
12 - Debts
- Jup-inf,Nep-sup
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SUMMARY OF RULERSHIPS IN THE IRIS
(name,rule,co-rule,fall,co-fall,exalt,debilitate)
Name Rul Crl Fal Cfl Exa Deb
Pluto Sco
Tau
Vir Pis
Neptune Pis
Vir
Sag Gem
Uranus Aqu
Leo
Sco Tau
Saturn Cap Aqu Can Leo Lib Ari
Jupiter Sag Pis Gem Vir Can Cap
Mars Ari Sco Lib Tau Cap Can
Sun Leo
Aqu
Ari Lib
Venus Lib Tau Ari Sco Pis Vir
Mercury Gem Vir Sag Pis Aqu Leo
Moon Can
Cap
Tau Sco
Node Aqu
Leo
Vir Pis
Lilith Sco
Tau
Pis Vir
Fortune Pis
Vir
Sag Gem
TROPICAL MONTHS OF THE YEAR IN THE IRIS
summary of seasonal rulerships during the
zodiacal months of the tropical year
Name Rul Crl Fal Cfl Exa Deb
Pluto sco
tau
vir pis
Neptune pis
vir
sag gem
Uranus aqu
leo
sco tau
Saturn cap aqu can leo lib ari
Jupiter sag pis gem vir can cap
Mars ari sco lib tau cap can
Sun leo
aqu
ari lib
Venus lib tau ari sco pis vir
Mercury gem vir sag pis aqu leo
Moon can
cap
tau sco
GENERAL PLANET DATA J2000
(reference http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov, http://www.solarviews.com)
Planet: AU
Year
Diam
Hr/Day
Mass Dens Axis Sat
Earth: 1.000
1.00
1.000
24.00
1.000 5.52 23.44
1
Sun: 0.000
0.00 109.125 ~720.00 322946.000 1.37 00.00
9
Moon: 0.003
0.07
0.272 655.72
0.012 3.34 1.542
0
Mercury: 0.387
0.24
0.382 1407.51
0.055 5.43 02.00
0
Venus: 0.723
0.62
0.949 5832.45
0.815 5.20 177.3
0
Mars: 1.524
1.88
0.532
24.62
0.107 3.93 25.19
2
Jupiter: 5.203 11.86 11.209
9.92
317.938 1.33 03.13 16
Saturn: 9.537 29.45
9.449
10.66
95.181 0.69 25.33 18
Uranus:19.191 84.02
4.007
17.24
14.531 1.32 97.86 15
Neptune:30.069 164.79
3.883
16.11
17.135 1.64 28.31
8
Pluto:39.482 247.92
0.180 153.29
0.002 1.10 122.5
1
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S#
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
ADDITIONAL ORBITAL DATA J2000
Pla eccent. incl. retro av.
Plu 0.24881 17.14
Nep 0.00859 1.769
Ura 0.04717 0.799
Sat 0.05415 2.484 138 days
Jup 0.04839 1.305 121 days
Mar 0.09341 1.851
73 days
Sun 0.01671 0.000 -------Ven 0.00677 3.395
42 days
Mer 0.20563 7.005
22 days
Moo 0.05
0.017 --------
SIDEREAL-SYNODIC-TROPICAL MULTIPLES
(the five planets of evening & morning)
MAGICIAN/Mercury:
85 mean-synodic periods =~ 27 tropical years;
191 sidereal ~ 145 mean-synodic ~ 46 tropical
EMPRESS/Venus:
157 mean-synodic periods =~ 251 tropical years;
1871 sidereal ~ 720 mean-synodic ~ 1151 tropical
TOWER/Mars:
22 mean-synodic periods =~ 47 tropical years
151 sidereal ~ 133 mean-synodic ~ 284 tropical
EMPEROR/Jupiter:
76 mean-synodic periods =~ 83 tropical years
36 sidereal ~ 391 mean-synodic ~ 427 tropical
JUDGMENT/Saturn:
57 mean-synodic periods =~ 59 tropical years
9 sidereal ~ 256 mean-synodic ~ 265 tropical
Saturn’s rings edge-on =~ avg. 14.75 years
– fin –
- From near the Continental Divide
of Central Colorado, USA
This 24. of December, 2002.
Done by Daniel Joseph Min
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